Education
Born in Săcăreşti, Iaşi County, he studied at Academia Mihăileană. Among his teachers were August Treboniu Laurian and Simion Bărnuțiu.
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Career
He enrolled at the University of Paris in 1865, studying chemistry there. He returned home following graduation, teaching physics and chemistry at Iaşi"s National College and at the military high school. In 1878, he became a professor at the University of Iaşi, at first teaching in the medicine and science faculties, later only in the mineral chemistry department of the latter.
He served as Religious Affairs and Education Minister three times: in 1891, 1895-1896 and in 1918.
When not in government, he continued to work in his chemistry laboratory in Iaşi.
Membership
A titular member of the Romanian Academy from 1879, he was also the Academy"s president between 1898 and 1901, and again between 1916 and 1920.
