Theodor Burghele

Theodor Burghele (born February 2, 1905 in Iași ; † June 3, 1977 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian doctor and politician of the Romanian Communist Party PCR (Partidul Comunist Român) , who among other things was Minister of Health between 1972 and 1975 and from 1976 to his He was president of the Romanian Academy in 1977 .

Life

After attending school, Burghele began studying medicine at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași , which he completed in 1929 with a doctorate. After further medical training from 1930 to 1931 at the University of Vienna , he successively became assistant doctor, anesthetist , ward doctor and lecturer at the chair of Nicolae Hortolomei at the University of Bucharest . He dealt with issues of urology, surgery, cardiovascular medicine and developed basic personal procedures in surgery. During the Second World War he was also called up for military service and was a doctor at Spitalul Colțea in 1941 and in Tiraspol in 1942 . For his services as a military doctor, he was awarded the Queen Mary Cross (Ordinul "Crucea Regina Maria") and the Order for Medical Merit (Ordinul Sanitar) in 1942 .

In January 1946 Burghele took over the professor of the clinic for urology of the medical faculty of the University of Bucharest and held this until 1956. In 1948 he became a member of the Romanian Workers' Party PMR (Partidul Muncitoresc Român) . In 1955 he received the Order of Labor Second Class (Ordinul Muncii). On July 2, 1955, he was first a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (Academia Republicii Populare Române) and on October 20, 1955, Rector of the Institute for Medicine and Pharmacy of the University of Bucharest and held this office until 1972. He was also between October 11, 1960 and March 18, 1975 a member of the Supreme Council for Medicine and in 1962 also held the chair at the Medical-Pharmaceutical Institute in Bucharest. On March 21, 1963 he became a titular member of the Romanian Academy. Burghele, who was also Nicolae Ceaușescu's personal physician , became a titular member of the Academy of Medical Sciences (Academia de Științe Medicale) in 1969 . He was also a member of the French Académie nationale de médecine , a corresponding member of the French Academy of Surgery and director of the Spitalul Panduri .

On April 24, 1972, Theodor Burghele succeeded Dan Enăchescu in the post of Minister of Health (Ministrul sănătății) in the Maurer V cabinet and held this ministerial office between March 29, 1974 and March 18, 1975 in the Mănescu I cabinet . On July 21, 1972, at a central committee plenum, he became a candidate for the Central Committee (ZK) of the PCR and held this position until his death on June 3, 1977. At the same time he served as President of the National Demography Commission between September 21, 1972 and 1975. Most recently he was on March 23, 1976 as the successor to Miron Nicolescu, who died on June 30, 1975, as President of the Romanian Academy (Academia Republicii Socialiste România) and also held this office until his death on June 3, 1977.

Publications

• Vitaminele in surgery , 1944
• Rinichiul de șoc , 1962
• Urgențele în urologie , 1967
• The neurogenic bladder in spinal cord injuries , 1970
• Erreures, fautes et risques en urologie , 1971
• Viața și opera Acad. N. Hortolomei (1972)
• Tratatului de patologie chirurgicală , 1975.

in German language

• Operative urology. Part 2 , Springer-Verlag Berlin, Göttingen, Heidelberg 1970, ISBN 978-3-540-05142-8

literature

• Theodor Burghele. In: Florica Dobre (ed.): Consiliul Național pentru Studiera Arhivelor Securității. Membrii CC al PCR 1945-1989. Dicționary. Editura Enciclopedicã, Bucharest 2004, ISBN 973-45-0486-X , p. 120 f. ( PDF; 12.1 MB ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cabinet Maurer V
2. ^ Cabinet Mănescu I