Traian Săvulescu
| Traian Săvulescu | |
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| Born | February 2, 1889 |
| Died | March 29, 1963 (aged 74) Bucharest |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Known for | founder of the Romanian School of Phytopathology, member and president of the Romanian Academy |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biology, Botany, Mycology |
| Institutions | University of Bucharest |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | Săvul. |
Traian Săvulescu (2 February 1889, Râmnicu Sărat – 29 March 1963, Bucharest) was a Romanian biologist and botanist, founder of the Romanian School of Phytopathology, member and president of the Romanian Academy.
The third child of Petrache and Maria Săvulescu, he attended primary school and secondary school in Râmnicu Sărat and the "Costache Negruzzi" College in Iași, where his teacher Teodor Nicolau directed him towards the study of botany.
After graduation in 1907, he enrolled at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest. The next year, he enrolled at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Natural Sciences, from which he graduated in 1912. After graduation, he embarked on a PhD at the Botanic Institute in Bucharest, which he obtained in 1916 with a doctoral thesis entitled Studiul asupra speciilor de Campanula L. din secția Heterophyllae ce cresc în România (Study of the species of Campanula L. in the Heterophyllae growing in Romania). The work was well received and noted with magna cum laude. Traian Săvulescu became the first doctor of botany at the University of Bucharest.
Between 1912 and 1921 he worked at the Botanical Institute of Cotroceni and in 1918 was appointed lecturer at the Department of Plant Morphology and Institute of Systematic Botany in Bucharest. For a quarter of a century, he divided his work between the College of Agriculture at Herăstrău, where he taught Systematics and Phytopathology, and the Plant and the Agricultural Research Institute of Romania, founded by Gheorghe Ionescu-Şişeşti.
He organized a network of warning stations across Romania to combat vine mildew. In 1929 he founded a laboratory for the study of insecticide-fungicide substances, the laboratory subsequently becoming the national Plant Protection Service. He also initiated the first phytosanitation laws and quarantine control in Romania.
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