Petru Bogdan (29 January 1873 â 28 March 1944) was a Romanian chemist, educator, and politician. In 1926, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
He was born in CozmeÃÂti, IaÃÂi County, the son of Vasile Bogdan (the mayor of the village) and Ana, née TimuÃÂ; his father died four years later, during the Romanian War of Independence of 1877.
Bogdan was a professor at the University of IaÃÂi. 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 IaÃÂi.
Bogdan was a member of the National Peasants' Party. He served as Mayor of IaÃÂi from January 1930 to March 1934.
He had 7 children, Margareta, Gheorghe, Maria, Elena, Ana, , and Ioan; one of his grandsons was Ioan Petru Culianu.
Studiul Chimiei Fisicale (4 volumes)