Constanța Pompilian-Zossima (1870-1936)
Mathematician. Studied in Bucharest and Sorbonne. She co-founded the journal Gazeta matematică. She founded in 1896 the Institute Pompilian, a high school for woman.
Category: 19 Century
Maria Cutzarida-Crătunescu (1857-1919)
First woman physician in Romania. She studied medicine in Zurich. In 1884, she became doctor in medicine, specialized in gynecology. She got involved in feminist activities.
Elena Văcărescu (1864-1947)
Writer, translator. She studied in Paris where she published her first volum of poetry, Chants d’Aurore. Exiled for being romantically involved with the crown prince Ferdinand, she lived in Paris. She was member of the Romanian delegation to the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919.
Iulia Hasdeu (1869-1888)
Poet. Musician. First Romanian woman to study at Sorbonne.
Elena Ghica alias Dora d’Istria (1828-1888)
Writer, painter, historian, feminist. She translated from Greek to German at 14 years old The Illiad of Homer. She married Russian prince Alexander Kolotov Massalski and lived in Saint Petersburg during the Crimea War. She publicly sympathized with France and UK and was detained and
Matilda Cugler-Poni (1851-1932)
Poet and novelist. She published her first poems in the well-known cultural magazine, Convorbiri literare, in 1867. Her debut poetry volum was published in 1874.
Ana Elisabeta Brâncoveanu, Countess Anna de Noailles (1876-1933)
Poet, writer, activist of human rights and women rights. She organized a literary salon in Paris where she received André Gide, Paul Valéry, Jean Cocteau, Colette, Paul Claudel, Marcel Proust as well as Eduard of Walles, future king Eduard VII. She published poems Litanies (1889),
Maria Băiulescu (1860-1941)
Feminist activist and writer. Published: Note si impresiuni (1896), Vacantii (1903), Extaz (1908). Translated from Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller etc.
Tumarkin Ana Ester (1875 -1951)
She was born in a rich family of jews in Bessarabia. From 1892 she went to Switzerland where she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Berne, in 1895 successfully supported the doctoral thesis on comparative analysis of the philosophical writings of
Natalia Keşcu – Obrenovici (1859-1941)
Natalia was born in Florence in 1859. She remained orphan and raised by her uncle Constantin Moruzi and his wife Princess Catinca. Natalia Keşco, only 16 years old, married Prince Milan Obrenovici in Belgrade’s cathedral on October 17, 1875. On March 6, 1882, Serbia became