Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu (born November 10, 1887 in Galați , † November 25, 1973 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian chemical engineer. She campaigned for international disarmament.
Childhood and youth
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, b. Leonida, grew up with ten siblings. Some of her siblings became known in the fields of sculpture, film and medicine. Her brother Dimitrie Leonida founded the Romanian Museum of Technology, Muzeul Tehnic Dimitrie Leonida, named after him in Bucharest in 1909 . In 1918 Elisa Leonida married the engineer Constantin Zamfirescu, brother of the writer Duiliu Zamfirescu , and had two children with him.
Studies and career
After graduating from high school, Elisa Leonida wanted to study at today's Bucharest Polytechnic for Bridge and Road Construction, which she was refused as a woman.
In 1909 Elisa Leonida enrolled at the Königlich Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg, today's TU Berlin , in the field of mechanical engineering, not without being pointed out by Dean Hoffman that women had a different calling. With her graduation in 1912, she became one of the first qualified female engineers in Europe. Instead of accepting a job offer from BASF , Zamfirescu worked as head of the laboratory at the Geological Institute in Bucharest, a position she had had to fight for. During the First World War , she worked for the Red Cross as a manager of the hospitals in the area of Mărăşeşti .
As a chemical engineer, Zamfirescu has dealt with the exploration of Romanian mineral resources and carried out large field studies, in particular with the development of new resources for the energy sources coal, oil shale, gas as well as chromium, bauxite and copper. Her publications deal, among other things, with the determination of germanium in coal and ores, with fuller's earth, with additives for mineral oils, with acrylic resins and with the chemical composition of the oil in the Romanian deposits.
diplomacy
As chair of the peace committee of her institute, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu attended the London Disarmament Committee at Lancaster House .
Awards
- Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu was the first woman to join the Romanian Association of Engineers (AGIR).
- A street in the 1st district of Bucharest has been named after her since 1993.
- Since 1997, the “Premiul Elisa Leonida-Zamfirescu” has been awarded by the National Women's Organization of Romania, which honors women for their work in science and technology.
- On November 10, 2018, she was honored with a doodle on her 131st birthday by the search engine Google .
Fonts
- Contribuţiuni la studiul bauxitelor din România (1931). Summary in English.
- Studiul chimic al cromitelor din Munţii Orşovei (1939).
Web links
- adevarul.ro: Femeile de aur ale României. Află poveștile impresionante ale personalităților care ar putea apărea pe o bancnotă națională FOTO
- viata-libera.ro: Gălăţeni care au uimit lumea - Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu
- revistafelicia.ro: O romanca, prima femeie inginer din lume
- This woman fought for all women engineers
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Entry on Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu in Enciclopedia României , accessed on July 13, 2012.
- ^ Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu: Google Doodle for the 131st birthday of the Romanian engineer. In: Focus Online. November 10, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zamfirescu, Elisa Leonida |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zamfirescu, Leonida Elisa; Zamfirescu, Eliza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Galați |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1973 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |