Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci

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Gheorghe Munteanu Murgoci (July 20, 1872 – March 5, 1925) was a Romanian geologist, founder of the South-Eastern European Studies Institute in Bucharest. In 1923, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Munteanu Murgoci was a native of Măcin, Tulcea County. He studied at the Saint Sava High School and then at the University of Bucharest. As part of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, and others, he helped bring Scouting to Romania. He married the British zoologist and folklorist Agnes Murgoci in 1904, together they had two children. A high school in Brăila is named "Colegiul Național Gheorghe Munteanu Murgoci" in his honor.

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