Petru Bogdan

Petru Bogdan
Born(1873-02-02)2 February 1873
Died28 March 1944(1944-03-28) (aged 71)
NationalityRomanian
Alma materUniversity of Iași
University of Berlin
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsUniversity of Iași
Romanian Academy
Doctoral studentsTheodor V. Ionescu

Petru Bogdan (29 January 1873 – 28 March 1944) was a Romanian chemist, educator, and politician. In 1926, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.[1]

He was born in Cozmești, Iași County, the son of Vasile Bogdan (the mayor of the village) and Ana, née Timuș; his father died four years laters, during the Romanian War of Independence of 1877.

Bogdan was a professor at the University of Iași.[2] He wrote the first treatise on physical chemistry in the Romanian language. In 1923, one of his students, Theodor V. Ionescu, who worked in plasma physics, was the first to defend a PhD thesis in physics at the University of Iași.

Bogdan was a member of the National Peasants' Party. He served as Mayor of Iași from January 1930 to March 1934.

He had 7 children, Margareta, Gheorghe, Maria, Elena, Ana, Constantin [ro], and Ioan; one of his grandsons was Ioan Petru Culianu.[3]

Publications

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Studiul Chimiei Fisicale (4 volumes)

  • ITeoria cinetică,
  • IITermodinamica,
  • IIIElectrochimia,
  • IVStructura atomului. Radioactivitatea.

References

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  1. ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
  2. ^ Livezeanu, Irina (2000). Cultural Politics in Greater Romania: Regionalism, Nation Building & Ethnic Struggle, 1918-1930. Cornell University Press. p. 104. ISBN 9780801486883.
  3. ^ Tereza Culianu-Petrescu (12 June 2010). "Casa Bogdan-Culianu". Ziarul de Iași (in Romanian). Retrieved 30 March 2021.
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