Une famille d’origine serbe dans les elites militaires et intellectuelles roumaines
A family of Serbian origin in the Romanian military and intellectual elites

Summary/Abstract: Simion Stoilow (1887-1961) ranks high in the annals of Romanian mathematics, and the fact that the Institute of Mathematics in Bucharest bears his name is testimony to his prominence in the field. A man of the left during his years of study at the Sorbonne, Simion Stoilow was one of the first rectors of the University of Bucharest from the past-war period and one of Romania’s first ambassadors in Paris under the new regime.His father, General Simion Stoilow (1841-1901) took part with distinction in the War of Independence of 1877-1878. His wife Olga, née Greceanu, was the daughter of Colonel Iancu Greceanu – of the Greceanu family of boyars from the former county of Romanaţi (today Olt county) – and his wife Paulina, née Bengescu, a scion of an old boyar family from Gorj county, intermarried with the Basarabi. Olga Stoilow was a distant, but direct, descendant of Clucer Stroe from Greci (today in Olt county, on the right bank ofthe river), the brother of Sluger Preda, known as ‘Floricoiul’, the son-in-law of Michael the Brave.The Stoilow family was related by marriage to other illustrious Romanian families: Oteteleșanu, Costa-Foru, etc. It is a good example of the power of integration – and likewise the cosmopolitanism – of Romanian society before the totalitarian regime.

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