 He collaborated with André Lalande and Paul Gaultier.He was elected member of the Romanian Academy on 28 May 1935.As a member of Octavian Goga's anti-Semitic ministry (1937–1938), Ion Petrovici planned to restrict the access of Jewish pupils to universities (the so-called "numerus clausus") and decided that Romanian language, history and geography teachers be only ethnic Romanians.