Petru Th. Missir

Petru Th. Missir (October 8, 1856 – June 10, 1929) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist and jurist.

Born in Roman, Principality of Moldavia, into a family of ethnic Armenian merchants, he graduated from Iași's National College in 1873. While a student at the University of Vienna's law faculty, he entered and became secretary of the România jună society. He later studied law at Berlin University, where he earned a doctorate in 1879. A member of Junimea, he also served as the organization's attorney; he taught both natural and international law at Iași University starting in 1884. From 1890, Missir was a professor at the University of Bucharest, and attended the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 1893. He was among the Junimea members who raised funds in defense of Mihai Eminescu. He edited the weekly Era nouă (1889-1900) and was part of the editing committee of Revista română (1902).