Romanians in history: Marta Trancu-Rainer, the first Romanian surgeon, operated without remuneration in the Reunification Wartranslated

Friday marked the 151st anniversary of the birth of Marta Trancu-Rainier, the first female surgeon in Romania. A friend of Queen Mary and equally devoted to her neighbor, she simultaneously coordinated three hospitals during the War of Reunification, operating and organizing without accepting any remuneration.

He was born in Târgu Frumos, in the family of wealthy Armenian merchants, Lazar and Ana, who had eight children. She was left fatherless at 11 years old, but attended elite schools, with exceptional results. "Sometimes I prayed to be woken up at 2:30 a.m. so I could study," she wrote in a diary.

After entering Medicine in Iași, she received a scholarship through the Romanian Academy, three quarters of which she sent to her family, and the rest she used to support her studies. A quarter of the 16 students were women. According to her diary, her colleagues were Maria Anastasescu-Piaseschy, who practiced in Galați, Elena Densuseanu-Pușcaru and Lucretia Moțoc.

He obtained his doctor's degree at the Faculty of Medicine in Iasi in 1899, with a thesis on "Subperitoneal pelvic hematoma". In the same year, he went to the Capital, with the aim of studying Pathological Anatomy with Victor Babeș, an internship held at the Colțea Hospital.

And he…