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Mihai Eminescu
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Mihai Eminescu (1850–1889) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and journalist, generally regarded as the national poet of Romania. Born in Botoșani in Moldavia, he studied in Vienna and Berlin, worked as a librarian, school inspector and newspaper editor, and was a central figure of the Junimea literary society. His poems — among them Luceafărul, Scrisorile and Glossă — shaped the modern Romanian literary language, and his prose, including Sărmanul Dionis, brought Romantic philosophy and the fantastic into Romanian fiction. He spent his last years in illness and died in Bucharest at the age of thirty-nine.
