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EMINESCU, MICHAIL (1849-1889)
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See also:EMINESCU, MICHAIL (1849-1889) , the greatest Rumanian poet of the 19th See also:century, was See also:born on the loth of See also:December in Ipateshti near See also:Botoshani, in the See also:north of See also:Moldavia. He was of Turco-Tatar origin, and his surname was originally Emin; this was changed to Eminovich and finally to the Rumanian See also:form Eminescu. He was educated for a See also:time in See also:Czernowitz, and then entered the See also:civil service. In 1864 he resumed his studies in Transylvania, but soon joined a roving theatrical See also:company where he played in turn the roles of actor, prompter and See also:stage-manager. After a few years he went to See also:Vienna, See also:Jena and See also:Berlin, where he attended lectures, especially on See also:philosophy. In 1874 he was appointed school inspector and librarian at the university of See also:Jassy, but was soon turned out through the See also:change of See also:government, and took See also:charge, as editor in See also:chief, of the Conservative See also:paper Timpul (Times). In 1883 340 he had the first attack of the See also:insanity hereditary in his See also:family, and in 1889 he died in a private institution in See also:Bucharest. In 1870 his See also:great poetical See also:talent was revealed by two contributions to the Convorbiri literare, the See also:organ of the Junimist party in Jassy; these were the poems " Ven_era si Madona " and " Epigonii." Other poems followed and soon established his claim to be the first among the See also:modern poets of his See also:country. He was thoroughly acquainted with the See also:chronicles of the past, had a See also:complete mastery of the Rumanian See also:language, and was a See also:lover and admirer of Rumanian popular See also:poetry. Influenced by these studies and by the philosophy of See also:Schopenhauer, he introduced a new spirit into Rumanian poetry. Mystically inclined and himself of a See also:melancholy disposition, he lived in the See also:glory of the See also:medieval Rumanian past; stifled by the artificiality of the See also:world around him, he rebelled against the conventionality of society and his surroundings. In inimitable language he denounced the vileness of the See also:present and painted in glowing pictures the heroism of the past; he also surprised nature in its See also:primitive beauty, and he gave expression to stirring emotions in lyrics couched in the language and See also:metre of popular poetry. He further proved himself an unsurpassed See also:master in See also:satire. Over all his poetry hangs a See also:cloud of sadness, the sense of See also:corning See also:doom. Simplicity of language, masterly handling of See also:rhyme and See also:verse, deep thought and plastic expression made Eminescu the creator of a school of poetry which dominated the thought of See also:Rumania and the expression of Rumanian writers and poets at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th. Five See also:editions of his collected poems appeared after 1890. Some of them were translated into See also:German by " Carmen Sylva " and See also:Mite Kremnitz, and others have also been translated into several other See also:languages. Eminescu also wrote two See also:short novels, real poems in See also:prose (Jassy, 1890). (M. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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