George Bogdan, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian physician and university professor
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About George Bogdan
- George Bogdan (1859-1930) was a Romanian physician and university professor. Bogdan attended the National College in Ia?i, graduating in 1876.
- He studied medicine in France, and earned a doctorate in psychiatry there.
- After returning home, he began work as a doctor at Sfântul Spiridon Hospital and as a teacher at the National College, where he offered a course on hygiene.
- In 1891, he became a part-time professor at the forensic medicine department of Ia?i University.
- The same year, he was named dean of the medical faculty and a member of the university senate.
- As such, he argued for an increase in the number of departments at the faculty, for an improvement in its laboratories, for the establishment of a library, for scholarships for needy students, and for the creation of a student cafeteria.
- He became a full professor in 1895, and taught both advanced medical students and law students.
- He introduced the notion of medical ethics into the courses at his faculty.
- He taught that doctors should follow principles of honesty, modesty and deference; that they are morally responsible for their actions; and that irresponsibility is "a sad privilege of the sick and the insane".He wrote a five-volume course on forensic medicine; this was considered the field's most up-to-date Romanian text at the time.
- He spent his entire career working as a coroner for the Ia?i tribunal.
- In 1915, for the benefit of other coroners, he edited a collection of 56 coroners' reports he had filed.
- He published widely across three decades, writing numerous works in the field of clinical practice based on his lifelong experience as a doctor in a dermatology and syphilis clinic.
- An active participant in international hygiene congresses, he focused on health education and preventive medicine.
- He performed experiments on animals as well as anthropometric measurements.
- He collected a wide array of exhibits for the museum of pathological forensic medicine, and was involved in forensic microbiology.He was rector of Ia?i University from 1907 to 1913; as such, he proposed the establishment of a students' union, the establishment of new departments and the building of dormitories.
- He led the 50th anniversary celebrations in 1910 and strove to raise the university's prestige.
- A lover of literature, he was president of the local Franco-Romanian society, and published three short stories.
- He worked as a combat medic during the Second Balkan War (1913) and World War I (1916-1919), and was made a commander of the Legion of Honour.
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