BOOK REVIEW: GRÉGOIRE ALEXANDRE DUNANT. "CES OMBRES QUI FONT GENÈVE – UMBRELE GENEVEI: UN MOLDAVE AU BOUT DU LAC: ALEXANDRE DONICI (1886-1936) – UN MOLDOVEAN PE MALUL LACULUI: ALEXANDRU DONICI (1886-1936)" [THE SHADOWS OF GENEVA A MOLDOVAN ON THE SHORE OF THE LAKE: ALEXANDRE DONICI (1886-1936)] GENÈVE: EDITIONS ECLECTICA, 2018, 48 P.

Abstract

“What remains of Alexandre Donici’s legacy?” (p. 37) is the question Grégoire Alexandre Dunant asks in his biography of Alexandre Dunant, a Moldovan researcher whose life becomes the subject of this particular book. As a French-Romanian bilingual edition translated by Dorin Dușciac, this ambitious study manages to capture and vividly portray the circumstances of Donici’s scientific activity in Geneva and the subsequent omission of his involvement in the creation of the Ethnographic Museum of Geneva.