Mihai Eminescu
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Portrait of Mihai Eminescu. Photograph taken by Jan Tomas in Prague, 1869
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| Native name | Mihai Eminescu |
| Born | Mihail Eminovici 15 January 1850 Botoșani, Principality of Moldavia |
| Died | 15 June 1889 (aged 39) Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania |
| Resting place | Bellu cemetery, Bucharest |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, journalist |
| Language | Romanian |
| Nationality | Romanian |
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University of Vienna Humboldt University of Berlin |
| Genres | Poetry, short story |
| Subjects | Condition of genius, death, love |
| Literary movement | Romanticism |
| Notable works | Luceafărul, Scrisoarea I |
| Years active | 1866–1888 |
| Partner | Veronica Micle |
| Children | None |
| Relatives | Gheorghe Eminovici (father) Raluca Iurașcu (mother) Eight brothers
Three sisters
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Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj emiˈnesku]; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918). His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna to study when he was 19. The poet's Manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902. Notable works include Luceafărul (The Vesper/The Evening Star/The Lucifer/The Daystar), Odă în metru antic (Ode in Ancient Meter), and the five Letters (Epistles/Satires). In his poems he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects.
His father was Gheorghe Eminovici from Călinești, a Moldavian village in Suceava county, Bucovina, which was then part of the Austrian Empire (while his father came from Banat). He crossed the border into Moldavia, settling in Ipotești, near the town of Botoșani. He married Raluca Iurașcu, an heiress of an old aristocratic Moldavian family. In a register of the members of Junimea, Eminescu himself wrote down the date of his birth as 22 December 1849 and in the documents of the Gymnasium from Cernăuți, where Eminescu studied, the date of 14 December 1849 is written down as his birthday. Nevertheless, Titu Maiorescu, in his work Eminescu and His Poems (1889) quoted N. D. Giurescu's researches and adopted his conclusion regarding the date and place of Mihai Eminescu's birth, as being 15 January 1850, in Botoșani. This date resulted from several sources, amongst which there was a file of notes on christenings from the archives of the Uspenia (Domnească) Church of Botoșani; inside this file, the date of birth was "15 January 1850" and the date of christening was the 21st of the same month. The date of his birth was confirmed by the poet's elder sister, Aglae Drogli, who affirmed that the place of birth was the village of Ipotești.
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