Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu

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Maria Cuţarida 1857–1919. Stamp of Romania, 2007.

Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu (February 10, 1857 – November 16, 1919) was the first woman to be a medical doctor in Romania.[1] An active feminist supporter, she founded the Maternal Society in 1897, and in 1899 organised the first crèche in Romania.[2]

A native of

magna cum laude; her thesis was titled Hydrorrhee to valeur et dans le cancer du corps semiologique del uters.[4][1] She made a request to Brâncovenesc Hospital, asking to work on a post-secondary medical department "Diseases of Women", but was turned down without explanation, and instead given a post of professor of hygiene.[1] In 1886 she became head of the department of hygiene of the asylum "Elena Lady", and in 1891 was the head of the department of gynecology at Filantropia Hospital in Bucharest.[1]

Cuțarida-Crătunescu founded a maternal society in 1897 to help poor children, and was invited to congresses in Brussels (1907) and Copenhagen (1910), where she presented the Romanian medical actions initiated against infant mortality and a study on nurseries in Romania.[1] She was a feminist, and presented Work of Women in Romania, about Romanian women's intellectual work, to a Congress held in Paris in 1900.[1][5] During World War I she worked as a physician in Military Hospital no. 134.[1] She retired after the war, probably for health reasons, and died in Bucharest in 1919.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Stănilă, Ionela (November 8, 2013). "Cariera excepțională i-a adus celebritatea. Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu, prima femeie medic din România, școlită la Paris". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved May 25, 2021.
  2. ^ Avram Arina Femei celebre din România. Mică enciclopedie 2
  3. ^ Damian-Constantine E, The first female medical doctor in Romania and their contribution to the development of medical specialists in B6. The Contribution of Women to the Development of History of Science and Technology, International Congress of the History of Science. 16th. Proceedings. B. Symposia. Suppl. (1981)
  4. ^ "Românce de excepție (documentar)". www.romaniaculturala.ro. Agerpres. March 8, 2013. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved May 25, 2021.
  5. ISBN 978-973-7839-55-8
    , pp. 89-90
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