Constantin Ion Parhon

Constantin Parhon
President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic
In office 30 December 1947 – 13 April 1948
Preceded by	Position Created
Succeeded by	Himself (as President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly)
President of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly
In office 13 April 1948 – 12 June 1952
Preceded by	Himself (as President of the Provisional Presidium of the Republic)
Succeeded by	Petru Groza
Personal details
Nationality	Romanian

Constantin Ion Parhon (Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin iˈon parˈhon]; 15 October 1874 – 9 August 1969) was a Romanian neuropsychiatrist, endocrinologist and politician. He was the first head of state of Communist Romania from 1947 to 1952. Parhon was President of the Physicians and Naturalists Society in Iași, hospital director, professor, and director of medical institutes.

Born in Câmpulung to the schoolteacher Ioan Parhon and his wife Maria (née Bauer), he completed lyceum in Ploiești 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 School of Medicine of the University of Iași (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, Secrețiile Interne ("Internal Secretions"). Later on, he published a Handbook of Endocrinology, co-written with M. Goldstein and Ștefan-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).

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