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    Mihai Eminescu was a 19th century Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist who is considered the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Some of his notable works include Luceafarul, Oda în metru antic, and his five Letters. He was born in 1850 in what is now Romania and was active in the literary society Junimea. Eminescu frequently used metaphysical, mythological, and historical subjects in his poems. He had a short but prolific writing career before his death in 1889 at the age of 39.

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    Mihai Eminescu was a 19th century Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist who is considered the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Some of his notable works include Luceafarul, Oda în metru antic, and his five Letters. He was born in 1850 in what is now Romania and was active in the literary society Junimea. Eminescu frequently used metaphysical, mythological, and historical subjects in his poems. He had a short but prolific writing career before his death in 1889 at the age of 39.

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    Mihai Eminescu was a 19th century Romanian poet, novelist, and journalist who is considered the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Some of his notable works include Luceafarul, Oda în metru antic, and his five Letters. He was born in 1850 in what is now Romania and was active in the literary society Junimea. Eminescu frequently used metaphysical, mythological, and historical subjects in his poems. He had a short but prolific writing career before his death in 1889 at the age of 39.

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    Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [mi'haj emi'nesku]; born Mihail Eminovic

    i; 15 January 1850 15 June 1889) was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, o
    ften regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an
    active member of the Junimea literary society and he worked as an editor for the
    newspaper Timpul ("The Time"), the official newspaper of the Conservative Party
    (18801918).[1] His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vien
    na to study when he was 19. The poet's Manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and ap
    proximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romani
    an Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902.[2] Notable works
    include Luceafarul (The Vesper/The Evening Star/The Lucifer/The Daystar), Oda n
    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 Caline?ti, 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 Ipote?ti, nea
    r the town of Boto?ani. He married Raluca Iura?cu, an heiress of an old aristocr
    atic 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 th
    e Gymnasium from Cernau?i, where Eminescu studied, the date of 14 December 1849
    is written down as his birthday. Nevertheless, Titu Maiorescu, in his work Emine
    scu and His Poems (1889) quoted N. D. Giurescu's researches and adopted his conc
    lusion regarding the date and place of Mihai Eminescu's birth, as being 15 Janua
    ry 1850, in Boto?ani. This date resulted from several sources, amongst which the
    re was a file of notes on christenings from the archives of the Uspenia (Domneas
    ca) Church of Boto?ani; 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 bi
    rth was confirmed by the poet's elder sister, Aglae Drogli, who affirmed that th
    e place of birth was the village of Ipote?ti.[3]
    Mihai Eminescu, monument by Tudor Cataraga Chisinau, Rep.of Moldova
    Early years[edit]
    Mihail (as he appears in baptismal records) or Mihai (the more common form that
    he used) was born in Boto?ani, Moldavia. He spent his early childhood in Boto?an
    i and Ipote?ti, in his parents' family home. From 1858 to 1866 he attended schoo
    l in Cernau?i. He finished 4th grade as the 5th of 82 students, after which he a
    ttended two years of gymnasium.
    The first evidence of Eminescu as a writer is in 1866. In January of that year R
    omanian teacher Aron Pumnul died and his students in Cernauti published a pamphl
    et, Lacramioarele nva?aceilor gimnazia?ti (Tears of the Gymnasium Students) in wh
    ich a poem entitled La mormntul lui Aron Pumnul (At the Grave of Aron Pumnul) app
    ears, signed "M. Eminovici". On 25 February his poem De-a? avea (If I were to ha
    ve) was published in Iosif Vulcan's literary magazine Familia in Pest. This bega
    n a steady series of published poems (and the occasional translation from German
    ). Also, it was Iosif Vulcan, who disliked the Slavic source suffix "-ici" of th
    e young poet's last name, that chose for him the more apparent Romanian "nom de
    plume" Mihai Eminescu.
    In 1867 he joined the troupe of Iorgu Caragiale as clerk and prompter; the next
    year he transferred to the troupe of Mihai Pascaly. Both of these were among the
    leading Romanian theatrical troupes of their day, the latter including Matei Mi
    llo and Fanny Tardini-Vladicescu. He soon settled in Bucharest, where at the end
    of November he became a clerk and copyist for the National Theater. Through thi
    s period, he continued to write and publish poems. He also paid his rent by tran
    slating hundreds of pages of a book by Heinrich Theodor Rotscher, although this
    never resulted in a completed work. Also at this time he began his novel Geniu p
    ustiu (Wasted Genius), published posthumously in 1904 in an unfinished form.
    On 1 April 1869 he was a co-founder of the "Orient" literary circle, whose inter
    ests included the gathering of Romanian folklore, and documents relating to Roma
    nian literary history. On 29 June, various members of the "Orient" group were co
    mmissioned to go to different provinces. Eminescu was assigned Moldavia. That su
    mmer, he quite by chance ran into his brother Iorgu, a military officer, in Ci?m
    igiu Gardens, but firmly rebuffed Iorgu's attempt to get him to renew ties to hi
    s family.
    Still in summer 1869, he left Pascaly's troupe and traveled to Cernauti and Iasi
    . He renewed ties to his family; his father promised him a regular allowance to
    pursue studies in Vienna in the fall. As always, he continued to write and publi
    sh poetry; notably, on the occasion of the death of the former ruler of Wallachi
    a, Barbu Dimitrie ?tirbei, he published a leaflet, La moartea principelui ?tirbe
    i.

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