Mișea was born in 1873 in
Chroupista (), then in the
Ottoman Empire and now in
Greece and known as Argos Orestiko. His father was a professor while his mother was a housewife. After graduating from the
Romanian High School of Bitola, Mișea migrated to
Romania in 1893, graduating from the
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in 1899. During his studies, Mișea had to work to earn a salary with which to pay them. Mișea wrote articles in several
Aromanian publications on the history of the settlement of the village of
Gramos () and of local legends from the locality. The most important are an article written for
Gazeta Macedoniei ("Macedonia's Gazette") in 1897, in which Mișea includes legends explaining the depopulation and ruin of Gramos; and another for
Lumina ("Light") from 1907, in which he explains the history of the village. Mișea used the pseudonym "Ciuma alu Penți" when writing in these publications. After working on several
internships and
externships after his graduation, he was pressured by his professor , a Romanian
surgeon, to return to the Ottoman Empire to fulfill his "mission" with his Aromanian brothers, which he eventually did together with his wife Virginia Mustață from
Ploiești. The only non-
Muslim Ottoman population groups the Young Turks'
Committee of Union and Progress (CPU) ever recruited members from were the Aromanians and the
Jews. The strategy Batzaria and Mișea aimed for was to find a common cause with the Ottoman authorities, who sought a revitalization of the
status quo, in order to have an ally against
nationalist organizations from other communities within the Ottoman Empire that threatened the national movement of the Aromanians. On the other hand, the CPU benefited from having
Christian allies who could serve as examples for other Christian minorities of the empire, such as the
Bulgarians or the
Greeks. An Aromanian–Ottoman alliance was formed following negotiations between the CPU and the
Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society in which Mișea himself participated, as he was the latter's propaganda director. In December 1913, Mișea returned to Romania after pressure from his wife and from the Romanian politician
Take Ionescu, brother of his former professor Thoma, but also after considering his mission for the Aromanian cause accomplished and to raise his three newborn children. Mișea decided to leave the political scene and settled in
Buzău after having worked in several rural hospitals in other Romanian localities. During
World War I, Mișea worked as a doctor in a hospital in
Bacău, being later transferred to a
military hospital in
Negrești, where he treated many wounded soldiers. During this period, he fell ill with
epidemic typhus, although he quickly recovered. In the years 1920 and 1921, Mișea became one of the leading figures of the newly established Hospital of Infectious and Contagious Diseases of Buzău, where he worked until his retirement in 1938. Furthermore, the Aromanian linguist
Matilda Caragiu Marioțeanu states on her 2003 work
Toma Caragiu – Ipostaze ("Toma Caragiu – Hypostases") that Mișea helped
Toma Caragiu, who later became a famous actor, overcome an
enterocolitis at the age of one year and eight or nine months in Chroupista. She also writes that Mișea was called "Fil'io" by the Caragiu family and that he was her mother's godfather. In 1929, Mișea's wife Virginia died, and he was left a widower and never married again. Both had a total of six children, some of whom later dedicated themselves to medicine as well. Mișea died on 16 May 1944. ==References==