Mihai Eminescu

Mihai Eminescu was born on 15 January 1850 in Moldavia, in Botoșani (in Ipotești according to Britannica), the son of a boyar from Bukovina. A pupil in Cernăuți, he studied in Vienna from 1869 to 1872, then in Berlin until 1874. In 1870 he published two poems in Convorbiri literare, the journal of the Junimea circle. A librarian and school inspector in Iași, he later became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Timpul, in Bucharest. Struck by mental illness in 1883, he died in Bucharest on 15 June 1889.

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• PoetryLuceafărulMihai Eminescu · 1883not translated into EnglishLiterature