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Introduction Various authors from the three Romanian historical provinces, with particularities related to the different historical evolution of these provinces, have preceded and prepared through their studies, the emergence of balneology education in Romania. Materials and Methods: Literature survey. Results The first papers from our country in the field of balneology described the mineral waters of Transylvania (I Matyus, M Neustadter, S Koleseri, L Wagner, S Hatvany, J von Greissig, A Kurz, L Kovary, F Nyulas, I Meyr), Moldova (L Steege, B. Hacquet, D Cantemir, D Apostolescu, V Butiureanu) or Wallachia (M Wertheimer). Vasile Popp contributed to the development of Romanian medical terminology, being the author of the first medical paper in the field of balneology ("About mineral waters from Arpătac, Bodoc and Covasna") (1821). The first balneology study in Wallachia, ("The Metallic Waters of Great Romania, researched, described, and accompanied by a dietetic and macrovietic") was written by Ştefan Episcopescu (1857). Other remarkable authors are: Anastasie Fãtu (1874, "The description and use of communal water and mineral water in Romania, Moldavia and Muntenia") and Alexandru Șaabner-Tuturi (1900, "Mineral Waters and Climatic Resorts in Romania"). The first manual of hydrotherapy in Romanian was published by Gheorghe Baiulescu (1904). Doctor Ion Hozan, head of the hydrotherapy department of Grafenberg spa resort, played a special role in decisively influencing Marius Sturza's career. The latter became tenured lecturer of the first Department of Balneology and Physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine in Cluj (1931). At about the same time, Gheorghe Baltaceanu became the head of the Balneophysiotherapy Department at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest (1935). Conclusions In parallel with European studies in the field of balneology, studies that paved the way to the emergence of balneology and physiotherapy education in our country were published in Transylvania and in the Romanian Principalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]