Traian Săvulescu
After graduation, he embarked on a Ph.D. at the Botanical 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).[citation needed] In 1928 he founded the academic journal Starea fitosanitară a României (Phytosanitary status of Romania), published annually, which covered matters of plant protection.[citation needed] In June 1938 Săvulescu featured in a documentary film of an expedition in the Danube Delta, exploring the local flora.Săvulescu was appointed president of this new organization during the Romanian People's Republic (1948–1959) by decree of the Presidium of the Great National Assembly.[citation needed] In April 1955, during an election meeting of the Academy, Traian Săvulescu came to the defence of former members excluded in 1948 for their previous collaboration with authoritarian, anti-Semitic or fascist governments.