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Emil Racoviță House

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    The explorer and naturalist Emil Racoviță, born in 1868, lived in this house from 1920 until his death on 19 November 1947 during his time as a professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Cluj-Napoca. After studying law in Paris, he enrolled in the Sorbonne for natural sciences and graduated there. At just 25 years of age, he was elected a member of the Zoological Society of France. In 1897, he was recommended for the Belgian Antarctic Expedition. He sailed to the Southern Ocean on board the "Belgica" under the command of Adrien de Gerlache and his second officer, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, and the Polish geologist Henryk Arctowski. In 1920, he was appointed professor in Cluj-Napoca, where he founded the world's first Institute of Biospeleology, a discipline that studies organisms that live in caves.

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