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Mihai Eminescu

1850 - 1889

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Mihai Eminescu (Romanian pronunciation: [miˈhaj emiˈnesku] ; born Mihail Eminovici; 15 January 1850 – 15 June 1889) was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally 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, Austria to study when he was 19. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mihai Eminescu has received more than 1,133,059 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Mihai Eminescu is the 552nd most popular writer (up from 591st in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Romania and the 6th most popular Romanian Writer.

Mihai Eminescu is one of Romania's most famous poets. He was born in 1850 and died in 1889. He is most famous for his poem "The Prayer" which was written in 1881.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mihai Eminescu ranks 552 out of 5,755Before him are A. A. Milne, Heinrich Mann, Luo Guanzhong, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georg Trakl, and Denis of Portugal. After him are Abai Qunanbaiuly, Longus, Paul Lafargue, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alfred Döblin, and Wang Wei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Mihai Eminescu ranks 11Before him are Edward Smith, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Hermann Ebbinghaus, and Charles Richet. After him are Pierre Loti, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Pat Garrett, Oliver Heaviside, Lafcadio Hearn, and Henry Louis Le Chatelier. Among people deceased in 1889, Mihai Eminescu ranks 9Before him are Antonio Meucci, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Jefferson Davis, Alexandre Cabanel, Father Damien, and Luís I of Portugal. After him are Michel Eugène Chevreul, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Wilkie Collins, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, and Marie of Prussia.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Mihai Eminescu ranks 33 out of 665Before him are Nadia Comăneci (1961), Elie Wiesel (1928), Iannis Xenakis (1922), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), and Michael the Brave (1558). After him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), George Enescu (1881), Klaus Iohannis (1959), János Bolyai (1802), Álmos (820), and Hermann Oberth (1894).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Mihai Eminescu ranks 6Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), and Elie Wiesel (1928). After him are Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Ion Creangă (1837), and Károly Kerényi (1897).