People from Campulung - Constantin Ion Parhon, Radu Gyr, Nicolae Golescu, Tefan Golescu, Theodor Aman, Gheorghe Arsenescu, Parvu Mutul (Paperback)

Chapters: Constantin Ion Parhon, Radu Gyr, Nicolae Golescu, tefan Golescu, Theodor Aman, Gheorghe Arsenescu, Parvu Mutul, Tudor Mu atescu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Constantin Ion Parhon (October 15, 1874August 9, 1969) was a Romanian neuropsychiatrist, endocrinologist and politician. He was the President of the Provisional Presidium of the People's Republic of Romania from its proclamation on December 30, 1947 to April 13, 1948, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly of the People's Republic of Romania (head of state) from April 13, 1948 to June 12, 1952. Parhon was President of the Physicians and Naturalists Society in Iai, hospital director, professor, and director of medical institutes. Born in Campulung to the schoolteacher Ioan Parhon and his wife Maria (nee Bauer), he completed lyceum in Ploieti and graduated from the University of Bucharest, where he also received his MD. He later received a Honorary Doctorate from Charles University in Prague (1948). Parhon taught Neurology and Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Iai (1912-1933), and, from 1933, Endocrinology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bucharest. Parhon was the founder of the Romanian school of endocrinology. In 1909, he co-authored with Moise Goldstein the first book on endocrinology, Secreiile Interne ("Internal Secretions"). Later on, he published a Handbook of Endocrinology, co-written with M. Goldstein and tefan-Marius Milcu (3 volumes, 1945-1949). Parhon published over 400 titles, and was known for his encyclopaedic knowledge. Besides the afore-mentioned works, some of his other well-known works are Old Age and Its Treatment (1948), The Age Biology (1955), and Selected Works (5 volumes, 1954-1962). As a soci...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=449605