Dimitrie Voinov (June 25, 1867 – July 7, 1951) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

zoologist Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct, and how they interact with their ecosystems. Zoology is one ...

histologist Histology, also known as microscopic anatomy or microanatomy, is the branch of biology that studies the microscopic anatomy of biological tissues. Histology is the microscopic counterpart to gross anatomy, which looks at larger structures visi ...

and

cytologist Cell biology (also cellular biology or cytology) is a branch of biology that studies the structure, function, and behavior of cells. All living organisms are made of cells. A cell is the basic unit of life that is responsible for the living an ...

. Born in

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other #Etymology and names, alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the Cities in Romania, third largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical ...

, he was the adopted son of politician Nicolae Voinov.Mihai Sorin Rădulescu, ''Elita liberală românească, 1866-1900'', p. 107. Bucharest, Editura All, 1998. He graduated from the

University of Paris The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...

in 1890, going on to earn a doctorate. He extensively studied insect orders such as

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and

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. His investigations into reproduction focused on studying the shape and structure of sperm cells. He also looked at the components of cytoplasm, including mitochondria and vacuoles. Raluca Budulache
"Repere ale istoriei Facultății de Biologie a Universității din București"
in ''Biologia ca formă a culturii'' (ed. Virgil Iordache), p.19. Editura Ars Docendi, University of Bucharest, 2008, Among his over fifty scientific works published domestically and abroad are one on the "Principles of Microscopy" (Bucharest, 1900); another on spermatogenesis in ''

Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa ''Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa'', commonly known as the European mole cricket, is widespread in Europe and has been introduced to the eastern United States. Its scientific name is derived from the Latin 'gryllus' (cricket); and 'talpa' ( mole), becaus ...

'' (Paris, 1912) and a third on the

Golgi apparatus The Golgi apparatus (), also known as the Golgi complex, Golgi body, or simply the Golgi, is an organelle found in most eukaryotic Cell (biology), cells. Part of the endomembrane system in the cytoplasm, it protein targeting, packages proteins ...

in nerve cells (Paris, 1929). Between 1892 and 1939, he was a professor at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

's morphology and zoology faculty, becoming a titular member of the

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in 1927. In 1948, the new

Communist Romania The Socialist Republic of Romania (, RSR) was a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist One-party state, one-party socialist state that existed officially in Romania from 1947 to 1989 (see Revolutions of 1989). From 1947 to 1965, the state was ...

n authorities allowed him to remain as an "honorary titular member". Following a road accident, he died three years later at the hospital in

Găești Găești () is a town in Dâmbovița County, Muntenia, Romania with a population of 12,583 as of 2021. History The name of the town comes from a family of nobles (boyars) who owned most of the lands on which the town is now situated. Their nam ...

.''Natura: Seria biologie'', Vol. 19, p.89, 1972

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Voinov, Dimitrie 1867 births 1951 deaths Scientists from Iași Romanian adoptees University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Bucharest Romanian zoologists Histologists Cell biologists Titular members of the Romanian Academy Road incident deaths in Romania People from the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia