| Petru Bogdan | |
| Birth Date: | 2 February 1873 |
| Birth Place: | Cozmești, Iași County, Romania |
| Death Place: | Mediaș, Sibiu County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Nationality: | Romanian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Iași University of Berlin |
| Workplaces: | University of Iași Romanian Academy |
| Fields: | Chemistry |
| Doctoral Students: | Theodor 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,, and Ioan; one of his grandsons was Ioan Petru Culianu.[3]
Studiul Chimiei Fisicale (4 volumes)