INVENTOR

Petrache Poenaru

1799 - 1875

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Petrache Poenaru (Romanian pronunciation: [peˈtrake po.eˈnaru]; 10 January 1799 – 2 October 1875) was a Romanian inventor. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Petrache Poenaru has received more than 192,208 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Petrache Poenaru is the 258th most popular inventor, the 243rd most popular biography from Romania and the 4th most popular Romanian Inventor.

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  • 190k

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  • 58.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Petrache Poenaru ranks 258 out of 426. Before him are Léon Gaumont, Fritz von Opel, Ricardo Wolf, Abraham Darby I, James Nasmyth, and Robert Cornelius. After him are Arthur Wynne, Jacob W. Davis, Wan Hu, Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Frederick Scott Archer, and Harry Brearley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Petrache Poenaru ranks 32. Before him are Duchess Marie of Württemberg, Ludwig Rellstab, Ignaz von Döllinger, François-Auguste Biard, Henri Druey, and Ferdinand Reich. After him are Robert von Mohl, Tanaka Hisashige, George Arnott Walker-Arnott, Alexander Petrov, Nathaniel Palmer, and Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur. Among people deceased in 1875, Petrache Poenaru ranks 49. Before him are Charles Elliot, Charles Kingsley, Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume, John C. Breckinridge, Prosper Guéranger, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria. After him are Johann Karl Rodbertus, Robert von Mohl, Richard Christopher Carrington, Carl Jakob Sundevall, Charles Grandison Finney, and Mikhail Pogodin.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Petrache Poenaru ranks 243 out of 844. Before him are Olga Szabó-Orbán (1938), István Avar (1905), Sebastian Stan (1982), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Ivan Patzaichin (1949), and Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (1952). After him are Ileana Cotrubaș (1939), Sándor Veress (1907), Ștefan Barbu (1908), Basarab the Old (null), Argentina Menis (1948), and Ion Gigurtu (1886).

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Among INVENTORS In Romania

Among inventors born in Romania, Petrache Poenaru ranks 4. Before him are Henri Coandă (1886), Traian Vuia (1872), and Orban (1404).

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