Book exhibition `Petru Bogdan – 150`

The Central University Library `Mihai Eminescu` Iași organized, from February 6 to March 6, 2023, at its headquarters, the documentary exhibition `Petru Bogdan – 150`, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Romanian academician, professor at the University of Iasi. The official opening of the exhibition took place on 7 February 2023, in the Aula BCU `Mihai Eminescu` Iasi. The event was attended as guests by Prof. Dr. Ionel Mangalagiu, Pro-rector of the University `Alexandru Ioan Cuza` of Iași, and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Popescu, from the Faculty of Physics of the University `Alexandru Ioan Cuza` of Iași. The event was also addressed by Prof. Dr. Ioan Milică, Director General of BCU Iași, Dr. Elena Bondor, the producer of the documentary exhibition, and Prof. Dr. Gelu Bourceanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, currently Professor Emeritus. The university professors present at the event evoked the scientific activity, the work and the personality of the illustrious Professor Petru Bogdan, who taught at the University of Iași until 1940.

Professor Petru Bogdan was, alternately, Rector, Pro-Rector, Dean and Dean at the University of Iasi, from 1926 to 1940. He was involved, since 1926, in the steps for the establishment of the `King Ferdinand I` Foundation. Between 1941 and 1944 he was Director of the same Foundation and member of the Council of the Royal Cultural Foundations of Romania. He died on 29 March 1944, on duty, in a hotel room in Mediaș, during the evacuation of the assets of the “King Ferdinand I” Foundation in Iasi.