Gheorghe Macovei

Gheorghe Macovei (September 25, 1880 – May 31, 1969) was a Romanian geologist.

Biography Born in Tansa, Iași County, he attended primary school in his native village, where his father was a teacher. where his mentor was Ion Th. Simionescu. He then worked as an assistant in the geology and paleontology laboratory, beginning field studies in Bahna and Broșteni. In 1908, he was an intern at the Vienna Museum of Natural History. He defended a doctoral thesis about the geology of the tertiary basin at Bahna in 1909. Macovei was then hired as assistant geologist at the Romanian Geological Institute in Bucharest, working under Ludovic Mrazek, whom he had come to know while at Broșteni.