NameErnest Michel (Dimitri) Vlasto
Birth1 Jan 1848, Jassy/Iasi, Romania
MemoOr 2 Jan 1848. Kerofilas says 13 Jan 1848.
Death26 Mar 1900, 6 Rue Chateaubriand, Paris 8e, France
MemoProbably a clinic of some sort. His death certificate is signed by his brother Antoine Vlasto and his brother-in-law John Zarifi of London.
Burial29 Mar 1900, Boulogne-Billancourt, Paris, France
MemoBoulogne-Billlancourt. Service at the Greek Church, Rue Bizet, Paris
Residence1888, 69 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 8e, France
Residence1900, 7 Rue Lamennais 8e, Paris, France
Residence1884-94, 44 Rue des Ecoles, Paris, France
MemoAddress given to the Société Française de Photographie: perhaps where he was teaching or had an office?
OccupationEngineer. Pioneer of the French telephony and sub-marine telephone cabling systems.
EducationLycée Henri lV, Paris (then the Lycée Napoleon). École Normale, Paris (1868). Qualified 1871. But see Extrait du Bulletin of the École Central 1899-1900 (p. 139).
OriginWallachia/Moldavia.
Note 1Author of ‘Leçons Des Choses’. Became ill in the 1890s and died in a Paris clinic in 1900. Member of the Société Française de Photographie from 1884 to 1894 (the year that his terminal illness started).
Note 2See ‘L'Industrie des Cables Sous-marins’. Extrait des mémoires de la Société des Ingénieurs Civils. Paris, 1891. “A much loved colleague,” according to M. G. Dumont at his funeral.
Note 3His son M.E.T.D. Vlasto said his death was a consequence of Yellow Fever contracted in South America but in 1999 Fanny Charles-Roux said the cause was perhaps a result of a degenerative condition (syphilis?).
Note 4While still a student at he became a Captain of the artillery in the Armée de la Loire in 1870. As a consequence, apparently, he had a French passport issued to him in Smyrna on 19 Nov 1888 on his way to France.
Note 5Industrialist in telephonic cables, mining and chemicals. Greek Commissioner for the 1889 Paris Exhibition. Administrator of the French telephone and telegraph service, managing the Bézons factory producing sub-marine cables at Calais.
Note 5Traité pratique de chimie métallurgique par le Baron Hanns Jüptner de Jonstorff ; traduit de l'allemand par Ernest Vlasto 1891.
Note 5He manufactured sub-marine cables at his Rattier factories in Bézons (on the Seine) and Calais. It is highly likely that a degree of industrial ‘espionage’ was required in order to obtain information on Britain’s world-leading production techniques
Flags***, Argenti, Cantacuzene, Caralli, Coressi, Dwerniki, Giustiniani Fi, Petrocochino, Rodocanachi, Scanavi, Vlasto
FatherDimitri (Michael) Vlasto (1820-1863)
MotherNathalia (Antonio) Winkler (1826-1915)