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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, novelist, and journalist from Moldavia, 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 1,185,448 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Mihai Eminescu is the 625th most popular writer (down from 551st in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Romania (down from 33rd in 2019) and the 8th 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, Mihai Eminescu ranks 625 out of 7,302. Before him are Émile Verhaeren, Leo Africanus, Tirso de Molina, Alfred Döblin, J. M. Barrie, and Poliziano. After him are Zecharia Sitchin, August Wilhelm Schlegel, Samuel Johnson, Ludwig Tieck, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Witold Gombrowicz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1850, Mihai Eminescu ranks 12. Before him are Eduard Bernstein, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Karl Ferdinand Braun, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Charles Richet, and Pierre Loti. After him are Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Oliver Heaviside, Ignác Goldziher, Luigi Cadorna, Lafcadio Hearn, and Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Among people deceased in 1889, Mihai Eminescu ranks 9. Before him are Antonio Meucci, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Jefferson Davis, Michel Eugène Chevreul, Alexandre Cabanel, and Luís I of Portugal. After him are Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Father Damien, Wilkie Collins, Charles III, Prince of Monaco, Marie of Prussia, and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Mihai Eminescu ranks 40 out of 844. Before him are Álmos (820), George Enescu (1881), Sergiu Celibidache (1912), Gheorghe Zamfir (1941), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), and Iannis Xenakis (1922). After him are Milan I of Serbia (1854), Basarab I of Wallachia (1275), Radu cel Frumos (1438), János Bolyai (1802), Bela Lugosi (1882), and John Cassian (360).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Mihai Eminescu ranks 8. Before him are Tristan Tzara (1896), Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), and Dimitrie Cantemir (1673). After him are Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), Ion Luca Caragiale (1852), Lajos Zilahy (1891), and Ion Creangă (1837).

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