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Marcian David (Matty) Bleahu (born 14 March 1924, in Brașov) is a Romanian geologist, speleologist, geographer, alpinist, explorer, writer and politician. He is well known for his scientific contributions to the development of the theories of global tectonics (applied to the study of the geology of the Carpathian Mountains), for his pioneering in speleology and for the development of this science, but also for the popularization of science and of ecology in Romania. Marcian Bleahu is the author of more than 41 books and 126 scientific papers, of more than 400 articles on different topics. He has more than 500 public appearances as a speaker, including the radio and the television, he is a pioneer in using the multimedia in conferences, he is the author of the first geological map of Romania. As such, Marcian Bleahu is one of the most important Romanian scientific personalities of the second half of the last century. His books and his conferences have inspired generations of youth fond of nature, mountains, the exploration of the caves in Romania, and he has been, at the same time, a mentor for many Romanian geologists after the second World War. == Biography == Marcian David Bleahu was born on March 14, 1924, in Brașov, in the family of a notary, but his maternal ancestry goes up to the prince Constantin Brâncoveanu.〔Spovedania unui neînvins - Marcian Bleahu, Editura Paideia, 2006, București〕 He was enlisted during the World War II. He graduated from school and high-school in Brașov. In 1949, he graduated from the Faculty of Sciences (Sections of Natural Sciences and Geography) of the University of Bucharest. In 1974 he obtains a PhD with a thesis about the Geology and the Morphology of the Karst and of the Caves, at the University of Cluj. He begins his teaching activity at the Geology Department of Bucharest University, where he was a teaching assistant, lecturer and associate professor between 1949 and1961. He was eliminated from the teaching system for political reasons, and he started again his university career after 1989, when, together with prof. Dolphi Drimer, he founded the Ecological University, where he was appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences (afterwards transformed in Faculty of Ecology). Between 1949 - 1994, Marcian Bleahu worked as a geologist, a researcher and as a manager (including General Manager) at the Geological Institute of Romania. He was elected as a senator for the legislatures 1990-1992 and 1996-2000, on the lists of the Romanian Ecologist Movement, and of the Romanian Ecologist Federation.〔(Marcian David Bleahu - Parliamentary activity in legislature 1996-2000 )〕 Between 1991 - 1992 he was the Minister of the Environment. He has received several awards and decorations; in 2008 he was decorated with the Order "Steaua Româniai" ("The Star of Romania") as Knight, which is the highest Romanian civil order. At present, he has retired from the public activity, but he continues to write articles and books in several fields, including music (he is known as a sophisticated melomaniac), or ecology. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marcian Bleahu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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