Emilia Saulea

Emilia Săulea (July 21, 1904 – April 1, 1998) was a Romanian geologist and paleontologist. She became known as the first female paleontologist from Romania. She was named an honorary member of the Romanian Academy in 1993.

Life and work Săulea was born 21 July 1904, in Iasi, Romania.

She attended the Oltea Doamna High School in Iasi, graduating in 1925, and went on to attend the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Iasi, (now known as Alexandru Ioan Cuza University) graduating in 1929, where she worked with professors Ion Simionescu and Ion Athanasiu. She specialized in mineralogy and petrography of sedimentary rocks (Basel, 1932; Paris, 1934 ) and earned her doctorate in geology at the University of Bucharest (1946), with the thesis Les récifs et les faciés détritiques du Sarmatien moyen de la partie centrale de Plateau moldave.

Selected publications

Cutremurele de pămînt din Romînia, Ion Atanasiu, Emilia Saulea, Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1961 Geologie istorică, Emilia Saulea, Ed. Didact., 1967