Petrache Poenaru

Petrache Poenaru ( born January 10, 1799 in Băneşti, Vâlcea county, † October 2, 1875 ), Romanian revolutionary and confidant of the Tudor Vladimirescu, engineer, mathematician, responsible for the development of the Romanian education and founder of the National Collegiate from Bucharest and Craiova, full member of the Romanian Academy from 1870.

Youth and studies

Petrache Poenaru was born on January 10, 1799 in the municipality Băneşti, Vâlcea County. In 1818 he graduated from the School of Obedeanu church in Craiova. The age of 19 he moved to Bucharest to work on the Metropolitanischen school as teacher of Greek. Taken by the revolutionary spirit of the modern world, He is a supporter of Romania's revolutionary leader Tudor Vladimirescu and is its secretary and then closest advisor. The initiative of Poenaru is due to the formation of the first Romanian newspaper. He publishes " The Propaganda Sheet", which promotes the ideas of the resistance fighters.

On promise of Vladimirescu he then pulls 1824 to Vienna to study and thus escapes the death. In 1826 he went to Paris, where he is involved in the creation of the topographic map of France while studying cartography under the direction of L. Puissant.

Later life and teaching

In 1831 he moved to Britain, where he makes the first Romanian a train journey and that on the first modern railway line between Liverpool and Manchester. About this experience he wrote on October 27, 1831: "I have made ​​this journey with a new means of transportation, which is one of the wonders of the industry of the century is ... twenty interconnected carriages, laden with 240 passengers, will at once by a steam engine pulled ". Back arrived in Romania, he began a teaching career in 1832 as a teacher at the Sfântul Sava school whose rector he is. Shortly afterwards, he became the head of the Romanian education system and contributes significantly to its development by founding numerous primary schools, where lessons are taught in Romanian. Poenaru also written several textbooks.

Political, revolutionary and cultural activities

In 1848 he actively participated in the revolution and is a member of the Commission for the Liberation held in servitude to land the boyars and monasteries Roma. After the revolution, he holds an office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Postelnicia ) and in 1864 employees of the Technical Commission for public buildings.

On the cultural level, Poenaru shows particularly zealous. He is co-founder of the Philharmonic Society of Agronomy Society and the School of Agriculture. Poenaru initiated, along with others, the creation of the Botanical Garden in Bucharest and the National Museum of Antiquities. He has published numerous articles in the press and published the Journal of the National Museum, as well as the magazine " The country's teachers ." On September 10, 1870 he is a full member of the Romanian Academy. His inaugural speech, he keeps on 8 September 1871, and stressed that his five months had changed as a resistance fighter under Tudor Vladimirescu his life. His reputation meant that he was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. On October 2, 1875 Poenaru died at the age of 76 years.

  • Inventor
  • Member of the Romanian Academy
  • Romanian
  • Born in 1799
  • Died in 1875
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