b. 1924, Brasov -. Geologist, speleologist, university professor, titular member of the Romanian Academy
The Bleahu donation contains approximately 8500 titles, books and periodicals, publications in the fields of speleology, geology, geomorphology, edited in Romania and abroad.
He attended the “Dr. I. Mesota” primary school and high school in Brasov. He graduated the Faculty of Sciences in Bucharest and he obtained his PhD at the University in Cluj. In 1949, he was named assistant of the Department of Geology of the University in Bucharest, where he taught the courses of Structural Geology, Geologic Cartography and The Geology of the Quaternary. He taught between 1949-1962 and he was removed from the education system because of his unhealthy origins, since the communist authorities considered him to be a dangerous individual because of the fact that he spoke three foreign languages (!) and he taught using the latest research methods of the decadent western sciences.
He returned to the higher education system only after 1990, when he founded, together with professor Dolphi Drimer PhD and a group of valuable scientists, people of culture and university professors, the first private university in Romania, the Ecological University. He was dean of the Faculty of Ecology until the age of 70 and, from 1990 until 2001, he taught the courses General Geology. The External and Internal Dinamics, The Geology of Romania, The Physical Geology of Romania with elements of ecology, Nature Conservation and The Global Issues of Humanity. His professional activity contained books and studies on the stratigraphy, paleontology and tectonics of the Apuseni Mountains, the Bihor Mountains Codru-Moma and the Metaliferi Mountains.
His results and discoveries materialized into several dozens of scientific works, in printing several pages of geological maps. Marcian Bleahu was the coordinator of the first complete geological map of Romania on a scale of 1 :200.000 in 50 pages. His activity in the Apuseni Mountains materialized into two monumental syntheses: The geological evolution of the Metaliferi Mountains and The Geology of the Apuseni Mountains. Another merit in the field of geology is the establishment, in 1985, of the Romanian Geological Museum in which, according to Marcian Bleahu’s view, the visitors can, through a complete circuit, learn an entire geology text book, starting with the formation of Terra, through the successive geological stages, to the formation of the mineral riches. Today, the museum represents one of the most interesting and valuable museums of Bucharest.
Professor Bleahu’s preoccupations for the new theory of global dynamics or global tectonics, also known as plate tectonics, brought him much recognition in his scholarly field. Thus, in 1980, Marcian Bleahu made the first application regarding the Carpathians and his research materialized into publications and conferences. In his monumental work entitled Global tectonics, the fundamental elements of Marcian Bleahu’s revolutionary theory are presented, as well as their consequences. Marcian Bleahu is a member of the Swiss Academy of Physics and Sciences, a titular member of the Academy of Romanian Scientists and a member of different scientific societies (for geology, speleology and geology in Romania and abroad).
