Gheorghe Marinescu (* 28 February 1863 in Bucharest; "† 15. May 1938 in Bucharest) was a Romanian neurologist and neuro pathologist and a founder of the Romanian school of the neurology.

After study conclusion of the medicine 1888 at the University of Bucharest Marinescu in the histopathologischen laboratory of the of hospital and as an assistant at Institut for bacteriology under the direction of Victor Babes specialized. On recommendation of Babes it went with a national scholarship to Paris, where it took up its further training in the neurology under Jean Martin Charcot. In he became acquainted with Pierre Marie, Joseph Babinski and Fulgence Raymond. Later he worked with Carl refuses in Frankfurt/Main and then with Emil you Bois Reymond in Berlin. On recommendation of Pierre Marie it spoke 1890 on an international congress in Berlin the again won realizations over the Pathomorphologie of the Akromegalie.

After nine years stay abroad returned Marinescu 1897 to Bucharest, where it attained a doctorate at the university. In Bucharest for it a new chair for neurology at the hospital Pantelimon was furnished. After it it was appointed briefly as the director of the neurological university clinic with seat in the Colentina hospital. He dressed this function 41 years long and as a founder of the Romanian neurology is regarded.

Gheorghe Marinescu maintained close academic relations with its Paris colleagues, and many its over 250 articles were published in French language.

The scientific work of Gheorghe Marinescu extended to the entire neurology including experimental neuropathlogy. It used the newest research methods such as radiographs or the cinematography of the body position during the execution of different movements by healthy or neurologically gotten sick humans. The results of these studies appeared in the Monographie Le tonus of the muscles (1937) under cooperation of N. Jonescu Sisesti, Oskar Sager and Arthur Kreindler, with a preface of Sir Charles Sherrington.

Already at the beginning of its scientific career it published an Atlas with Victor Babes and the French pathologist Paul Oscar Blocq over the Pathomorphologie of the illnesses of the nervous system. Its 1893 description of a case of parkinsonartigem Tremor by a damage, written with Blocq, substantia nigra were the basis for the acceptance of Brissaud that the park in on illness appears as consequence of a lesion within range substantia nigra. Together with Blocq it described the senile Plaques as the first, and with the Romanian neurologist Ion Minea it confirmed the discovery of Noguchi Hideyo of Treponema pallidum in the brain of the patients with progressive paralysis. Its monumental work La Cellule Nerveuse, with a preface of Santiago y Cajal, appeared 1909.

Gheorghe Marinescu was a outstanding teacher, its lectures gave perspectives for further investigations. It received acknowledgments from many countries. 1925 it was selected from all pupils by Charcot, over in the context of a ceremony to Charcots 100. To evoke birthday the figure of the large master.

Pertinent Eponyme:

• Marinescu's hand, cold, edematous hand with livider skin, seen with some neurological illnesses, like Syringomyelie.
• Marinescu syndrome, a rare kongenitale illness with spino ataxia, kongenitalem Qatar act, Dysarthrie, mental retardation.
• Palmomentaler reflex (Marinescu Radovici), with patients with reciprocal damages of the pyramidalen system.

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