Gregoriu Ştefănescu – geologul
Gregoriu Stefanescu – geologist

Summary/Abstract: Geology and paleontology Romanian beginnings are closely linked to the name of a great scientist, pioneer: Gregoriu Stefanescu (February 10, 1836 – February 20, 1911, Bucharest). A complex scholar, whose value was fully recognized abroad. Which is why now, his spiritual descendants of the Bucharest Universi ty gratefully call him „The Earth Sciences Patriarch” of Romania. Stefanescu was born in Bucharest in 1838. Former student of the College „St. Sava” he continued his studies in Paris, where he took the degree in Natural Sciences at the French Sorbonne. He returned home in 1863 and two years later he published the first Textbook of Zoology in Romanian. Since 1865, he became the first Professor of Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology at the University of Bucharest. And in 1866, Gregoriu Stefanescu was among the founding members of the Romanian Academy. He is the only Romanian geologist who, as professor at the Bucharest University, attended all the International Geological Congresses, the first in 1878 into the XXth century, in 1906, where he was also elected President. At the Congress of Bologna, Stefanescu was the one who proposed the unification and subsequent geological sub divisions and the use of standard colors in mapping the field. As a participant involved in international scientific life, he was the first local scholar who has undertaken the task to make a geolog ical map of Romania. Task which had achieved it until 1890, when he published the first geological map of Romania, namely of the Old Kingdom. Subsequently, the map was built into the geolog ical map of Europe, published at the end of the XIXth century.

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