 Complete the following phrase:  Born in Iași, her parents were Gheorghe Nădejde and his wife Ecaterina née Băncilă; she was a niece of Ioan and Sofia Nădejde, as well as of Octav Băncilă. The couples second child, she began her education at home under her older brothers supervision, and was privately educated until completing high school in 1907. Although she had shown an inclination toward literature, she entered the natural sciences faculty of Iași University, attracted by prestigious faculty members who included Paul Bujor and Ion Th. Simionescu. She graduated in 1911, and in 1914, she became a science teacher at Oltea Doamna girls high school in Iași. In 1913, her brother, a combat medic in the 