This document profiles several pioneering Romanian women in different fields: - Maria Virginia Andreescu was the first woman to reach the rank of inspector general architect. - Aurora Gruescu was the first female engineer and forester in Romania and the first Romanian woman in the Guinness Book. - Sofia Ionescu was a pioneering Romanian neurosurgeon. - Sarmiza Bilcescu was the first Romanian lawyer and the first woman in Europe to obtain a law degree from the University of Paris. - Smaranda Brăescu was the first female parachutist in Romania and a European and world champion in skydiving.

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4. MARIA VIRGINIA
ANDREESCU
Maria Virginia Andreescu Haret was the first
woman in the world who reached the rank of
inspector general architect, first recognized status
within the framework of the XVI Congress of
History science held in Bucharest in 1981. She left
motherless at 9 years and was taking care of three
brothers. She went to high school in particular,
taking the Baccalaureate at „Michael the Brave”
High School.
At 18 she was student at School of Architecture.
In parallel she studied Fine Arts and has conducted a
large number of watercolors which today are part of
the collection Stamps Romanian Academy Library.

5. AURORA GRUESCU
Aurora Gruescu was the first female
engineer and forester in the world and first
Romanian who entered into the Guinness
Book. Her name is linked to the first national
afforestation plan.
She was born in the family of the teacher
Chiriac Dragomir. In 1933 she was admitted
to the Faculty of Forestry, which then
belonged to the Polytechnic. She was the only
female student in that faculty, prompting
both admiration and controversy.

6. SOFIA IONESCU
Sofia Ionescu-Ogrezeanu was a Romanian
neurosurgeon. She attended primary school in
her hometown and she attended to the high
school in Fălticeni and the last two years at the
Central School for Girls "Marica
Brâncoveanu" in Bucharest, where she took
the baccalaureate in 1939. In the autumn she
joined the Faculty of Human Medicine of
Bucharest. From October 15, 1943 carried an
internship hospitalized in Neurosurgery
Service of Hospital no. 9 of Bucharest, entering
the first neurosurgeron team, considered the
gold team.

7. Smaranda Gheorghiu was a
writer, publicist, active militant
feminists of the era, a member of
several cultural societies regarded of
the people. She is known as the
Mother Smara.
Her passion was traveling,
crossing both Romania and Europe,
but the most adventurous journey
she undertook in 1904 to North
Cape, on an itinerary that included
Transylvania, Budapest, Vienna,
Prague, Dresden, Berlin, Rostock,
Copenhagen, Upsala, North Cape
Island Mageroy.

8. SARMIZA
BILCESCU
Sarmiza Bilcescu was the
first Romanian lawyer, the first
woman in Europe who
obtained the law degree from
the University of Paris and the
first woman in the world with a
doctorate in law. She was
married with Constantin
Alimănişteanu.

9. Smaranda Brăescu
was the first female
parachutist in
Romania, European
champion and world
champion in
skydiving.
SMARANDA
BRADESCU

10. She is a pioneer of nowadays. She
joined to high school in Tirgu Mures
and the Faculty of Physical Education
and Sport in Bucharest. Between 1990 -
1996 she traveled to China, Tibet, India,
Nepal and Russia. In 1996 she crossed
Canada and between 1997-1998 she has
participated in the expedition "Belgica".
In 1999 she crossed Africa alone
from south to north, crossing 11
countries. In 2000 she traveled on the
old road used by the European
Maritime Vikings from Norway and
Iceland to Greenland.