Famous People with Name Dimitrie

Dimitrie Brândza            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dimitrie Brândza: was a famous Romanian botanist. He founded the Botanical Garden of Bucharest which is now named in his honor.

Dimitrie Cuclin            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dimitrie Cuclin: was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.

Dimitrie Gusti            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dimitrie Gusti: was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iasi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932-1933. Gusti was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1919, and was its President between 1944 and 1946.

Dimitrie Paciurea            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dimitrie Paciurea: was a Romanian sculptor. His representational and symbolic style contrasts strongly to the more abstract style of his contemporary and co-national Constantin Brâncusi.

Dimitrie Pompeiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Dimitrie Pompeiu: was a well-known Romanian mathematician.After studying in Dorohoi and Bucharest, he went to France, where he studied mathematics at the University of Paris (the Sorbonne). He obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1905 with a thesis, On the continuity of complex variable functions, written under the direction of Henri Poincaré. After returning to Romania, he was named Professor of Mechanics at the University of Iasi. In 1912, he assumed a chair at the University of Bucharest. In 1934, he was elected member of the Romanian Academy.