Biography
Born in Bacău, Victor Anestin was the son of actor Ion Anestin. He graduated high school in Craiova and went on to work for some measly wages as proof reader for various Bucharest newspapers.
As an astronomer, he made a few original obesrvations over planet Venus and published several articles in foreign journals such as Nature, Monthly Register and L'Astronomie.
Between 1907 and 1912, he published the first Romanian astronomical journal, Orion and in 1908, he was the founder of the Societatea astronomică română "Camille Flammarion". In 1912, Anestin became the director of the Ziarul Călătoriilor, which he renamed in Ziarul ştiinţelor populare ("Journal of Popular Sciences") and its circulation rose to 15,000. Together with C. I. Istrati, he founded Universitatea Populară din Bucureşti in 1912 and at the end of the year 1913, he founded the Prietenii Ṣtiinţei association.
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