Petrache Poenaru (1799 - 1875)

Born 10 Jan 1799 in Băneşti, Wallachia, Romania

Biography

Petrache Poenaru is Notable.

Petrache Poenaru was a Romanian inventor of the Enlightenment era.

Poenaru, who had studied in Paris and Vienna and, later, completed his specialized studies in England, was a mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, teacher and organizer of the educational system, as well as a politician, agronomist, and zootechnologist, founder of the Philharmonic Society, the Botanical Gardens and the National Museum of Antiquities in Bucharest.

While a student in Paris, Petrache Poenaru invented the world's first fountain pen, an invention for which the French Government issued a patent on 25 May 1827.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrache_Poenaru