Ștefan Micle

He went to high school in Cluj, Blaj, and Bistrița, and began work as an apprentice during that time in order to support himself.

In 1843, he graduated with high marks from the Cluj Academy of Law (later incorporated in Franz Joseph University).

In 1856, invited by August Treboniu Laurian, he came to Iași, where he was named professor of physics and chemistry at the newly founded institute of higher education that evolved from Academia Mihăileană.

His hiring at Iași formed part of a wider educational reform initiated by domnitor Grigore Alexandru Ghica in 1849.

Although his lecture notes are lost, Constantin Istrati reported seeing manuscripts of Micle's on mineralogy; agricultural mechanics; astronomy; botany; zoology; and analytic, inorganic, organic and experimental chemistry.