Petrache Poenaru (Romanian pronunciation: [petrake po.

enaru]; 17991875) 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.
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