Keywords: C.D. Zeletin/Lect. Phd. Constantin Dimoftache, biography, life
Abstract:
The Romanian medicine and its personalities from the past are part of a less known history. The Romanian medicine was first-class, of European level. Our great doctors’ literary contributions are less known though. It is not famous only through its many medical treatises, but through other literary genres: poetry, novel, religious and others. In the present article one can find an extraordinary biography written in the memory of Lect. Phd Constantin Dimoftache (aka C. D. Zeletin [1935 -2020]) by another writer, maybe of the same value as him – Prof. Phd Radu Palade. Both authors were full members of the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences with a rich literary and medical activity behind. Though Zeletin’s literary work (as a biophysicist, translator, poet, essayist, doctor, teacher) has been published in seven volumes, he is still little known in his country. He deserves attention both from the public looking for an authentic medical specialist and author, and from the one in search of an authentic literary, religious and lyrical author. Last, but not least, the author deserves our all attention as a model for a deep understanding of what really means a true dialogue between science and religion, which, essentially speaking, are not two different worlds, as many may think, but one, comprised by the term “knowledge” or “wisdom”. The separation, artificially made after the Scientific Revolution (14th century and on), comes in the modern, rationalistic period.
Pages: 110-123