Nicolae Frolov (1876–1948) was a

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n geologist and agronomist from

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. He was noted for his work in explicating the hydrology of Bessarabia and as director of the Chișinău National Museum. Born in Cornești,

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, Bessarabia, he graduated from Chișinău Theological Seminary and then went to Estonia where in 1904 he graduated from the

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(now Tartu). After which he taught at the universities of St, Petersburg,

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and

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. In 1921, he moved to Chişinău and was appointed as director of the Chișinău Museum. He taught agronomy and agricultural economics at the university there until 1940, when he retired and moved to Romania. He died in Iaşi.

References

*Brezianu, Andrei and Spânu, Vlad (eds.) (2007) "Frolov, Nicolae (1876-1948)" ''Historical Dictionary of Moldova'' (2nd ed.) Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, USA, p. 157, Romanian geologists 1876 births 1948 deaths {{Geologist-stub, Frolov, Nicolae