Ioan Mire Melik
Ioan Mire Melik, or Melic , was a Wallachianborn Romanian mathematician, educator and political figure, one of the early members of Junimea literary society. Known for his work in private education, and for his tenure at the University of Iai, he was the author of several early introductions to sciencedealing with arithmetic and geometry, but also with topography and surveying. He was perceived as a bland figure at Junimea meetings, and had little to do with its literary agenda, but took care of administrative chores and, for a while, of its publishing venture.
The future scientist was born in Bucharest, the Wallachian capital, on August 9, 1840 . He was of Armenian origins the Meliks traced their origin to Ohan, a Gregorian Armenian clergyman. I. M. Meliks parents were Ohans son, Arakel Popovici Melik, and his wife Maria Gedik they had two other children Gavril, a boy, and Anika, a girl. Ohans other son, Iacob, was a successful architect. The Ottoman statesman Mustafa Reshid Pasha recommended his work to the Wallachian government, but Iacob left the country and settled in Paris. From his new home, Iacob Melik corresponded with the exiled leaders of the 1848 Revolution, in particular the moderate and proOttoman faction of Ion Ghica, Alexandru G. Golescu and Nicolae Pleoianu.
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