Happy anniversary !!! Mihai Eminescu, born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850, Botoşani or Ipoteşti, Principality of Moldavia – 15 June 1889, Bucharest, Romania, was a Romantic poet, novelist and journalist, often regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. His father was Gheorghe Eminovici from Călinești, a Moldavian village in Suceava county, Bucowina, which was then part of the Austrian Empire (while his father came most probably from Transylvania( Făgăraş Land) or 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. From 1858 to 1866 he attended school in Cernăuți, Bukowina. The first evidence of Eminescu as a writer is in 1866. In January of that year Romanian teacher Aron Pumnul died and his students in Cernăuţi published a pamphlet, Lăcrămioarele învățăceilor gimnaziaști (The Tears of the Gymnasium Students) in which a poem entitled La mormântul lui Aron Pumnul (At the Grave of Aron Pumnul) appears, signed M. Eminovici. On 25 February his poem De-aș avea (If I Had) was published in Iosif Vulcans literary magazine Familia in Pest, Hungary. This began 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 the young poets last name, that chose for him the more apparent Romanian nom de plume Mihai Eminescu. From October 1869 to 1872 he studied in Vienna and Berlin. Not fullfilling the requirements to become a university student (as he did not have a baccalaureat exam), he attended lectures as a so-called extraordinary auditor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Law. He was active in student life, befriended Ioan Slavici, and came to know Vienna through Veronica Micle. Iacob Negruzzi, the editor of Convorbiri literare, traveled to Vienna to meet him. Negruzzi would later write how he could pick Eminescu out of a crowd of young people in a Viennese café by his romantic appearance: long hair and gaze lost in thoughts. Nicolae Iorga, the Romanian historian, considers Eminescu the godfather of the modern Romanian language. He is unanimously celebrated as the greatest and most representative Romanian poet. Poems and Prose of Mihai Eminescu (editor: Kurt W. Treptow, publisher: The Center for Romanian Studies, Iași, Oxford, and Portland, 2000, ISBN 973-9432-10-7) contains a selection of English-language renditions of Eminescus poems and prose. source, wikipedia mihaieminescu.ro/
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 05:38:09 +0000
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