Dimitrie Gerota

In the fall of 1898, he and his student Constantin Brâncuși produced the carved muscles anatomical study entitled the Ecorché, based on research done in the dissection room of the Faculty of Medicine and the Museum of Comparative Anatomy.

In May 1903, the flayed study was exhibited at the Romanian Athenaeum; the Society of Students of Fine Arts petitioned Spiru Haret, the minister of Education and Culture, to acquire it.

Since then, generations of Romanian art and medical students have studied anatomy from plaster casts made from the Ecorché.

Considered to be the first Romanian radiologist, Gerota initiated academic radiology education in that country.

In November 1935, he submitted the article "Monarhie cu camarilă sau republică" (Monarchy with a Camarilla or a Republic) to the newspaper Universul.

The article, highly critical of King Carol II, was censored, and Gerota was arrested and sent to Malmaison Prison in Bucharest.