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Petrache Poenaru - How did the pen come to be?
By Catalin and Roxana
inspector of Romanian schools in the
country.
A tireless promoter of cultural progress,
Poenaru contributed to the establishment
of the Philharmonic Society in 1831, in
1845 he entered the Literary Association,
in 1861 he became a member of honor of
the famous Astra Society, and in 1870 a
member of the Romanian Academic
Society.
He performed many administrative
functions of state, such as the “head
table” at Sea marshal (1830-1855, at
that time it was called the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of the country), member
of the Commission documents (1857),
member of the State Commission,
member of the Commission for the
captives (1848).
One of the less widely known
personalities of Romanian science but an
undoubted value in many areas is
Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875).
With a personality of rare predilection for
various fields, Petrache Poenaru is
present in encyclopedic works as
“inventor, brilliant educator, founder of
the Romanian school, fighter for social
and national justice.”
He studied at Craiova, Bucharest, Vienna,
Paris. He was a teacher of Physics and
Mathematics at the College of St. Sava,
where he then he worked as a principal.
Between 1833 and 1847 he was a general
Certificate of release from captivity of a Gypsy
(Bucharest, July 1848)
With the help of Gheorghe Lazar and
Eliade Radulescu, he contributed to the