 Complete the following phrase:  The future scientist was born in Bucharest, the Wallachian capital, on August 9, 1840 although traditionally believed to have been born on August 15 or August 21, and wrongly credited in some documents as a Iași native. 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 Melic, 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 