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]

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

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 edit

Studiul Chimiei Fisicale (4 volumes)

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

References edit

  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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