Petrache poenaru biography wife

Petrache Poenaru born in was a Romanian inventor and mathematician whose life was full of adventure and extraordinary experiences. Distinguished graduate of Obedeanu school in Craiova, Petrache was attracted by the life of the outlaws from the town slums, whom he joined before the age of To the astonishment and amusement of his new comrades, the young man did not know how to use weapons and carried with him an inkwell.

As soon as he had been introduced to Tudor Vladimirescu, he became one of his pandours, soon to become his man of confidence and head of chancery. During this time of political activism, according to some witnesses of the time, Petrache Poenaru would have invented even the tricolor national flag. It presented the ideals of the Romanian revolutionary army and it was the first Romanian propaganda newspaper.

When Tudor Vladimirescu was assassinated, Poenaru was on a diplomatic mission abroad thus managed to escape and later took refuge in Sibiu.

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After some time, he managed to obtain a scholarship and leave for Wien and Paris. During this time, he invented the first modern fountain pen with an ink tank. Three years later, he had the opportunity to participate to the inauguration of the first railway in the world, the railroad linking Liverpool to Manchester. This is what Poenaru wrote on 27th October