Why was chosen as the day to day Eminescu National Culture? Is his poetic read more like his lyrics, reached almost all corners of the world, and are current as of his political writings? The universality of his poetic work has been recognized by UNESCO, the poem Star entered into the Guinness Book of Records, and the poet was awarded a crater on Mars and even a small planet.
Is “Man Romanian culture … full consciousness of culture open to all,” wrote Noica about Mihai Eminescu.
Hundreds of pages of poetry, prose, dramatic projects, translation, processing and adaptations, even a sketch of a gra¬matici Sanskrit or a dictionary of rhymes, compose a vast and original opera, lyrical, nihilistic, heroic fantasy cosmogony didactic and polemical showing an inquiring mind, a good education and a philosophical immense will to master many areas.
Eminescu’s several thousand articles that talk about the state of social progress, civilization and culture, has been the object of controversy and politicians, ideologies or social scientists have cultivated it or have repudiated it depending on interests.
All of his work was influenced by the great philosophical systems of his age, but also ancient philosophy from Heraclitus to Plato, the belief systems of Romanticism, the theories of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hegel and Immanuel Kant or even of Buddhist philosophy.
“Eminescu was an overwhelming personality, which impressed his contemporaries by intelligence, memory, intellectual curiosity of European culture, richness and charm of language. Therefore we can say that without Eminescu otherwise we would be poorer, “said Tudor Vianu.
“They deserve a Nobel, but the prize is not awarded posthumously,” said Academician Eugen Simion, former president of the Romanian Academy, who championed and managed with the support of the Academy, as on 15 January to be National Culture Day .
Parliament approved the law in 2010, and in the explanatory memorandum of the initiators of the law reads:
” National Culture Day will, in our view, a day when we celebrate not only a great creator, but also a day of reflection on Romanian culture in general and cultural projects of national interest “.
There are precedents for this holiday and other European countries, in Spain’s culture day was fixed for the day of the death of Miguel de Cervantes, and in Portugal, the birthday of Luis de Camoes. Moreover, the authorities of Moldova decided that the birthday of Mihai Eminescu National Culture Day to become.

The greatest poet who appeared on Romanian soil

He was born on January 15, 1850, in Botosani, was the seventh of eleven children caminar Raluca Gheorghe Eminovici and Eminovici daughter of Joldesti Juraşcu Steward. Childhood spent in Botosani and in the parental home at Ipoteşti and attended school in Chernivtsi and German high school.
He made his debut as a poet at 16, with a poem written in memory of his former teacher, Aron fist, and the same year changed its name to Eminescu, later adopted by other family members.
For three years, 1866 to 1869 wandered between Chernivtsi, Blaj, Sibiu, Bucharest, Giurgiu and directly experienced people, language, customs and Romanian realities. He intended, but failed, to continue their studies. He worked as prompter and copyist roles Iorgu Caragiale’s troops and Michael Pascaly and continued to publish poetry, drama, novel fragments or do translations from German.
Between 1869 and 1874 he was a student in Vienna and Berlin, as “extraordinary auditor” at the Faculty of Philosophy and Law in Vienna and as a Fellow of Junimea cultural association in Berlin.
” He knew German and French, will absorb the history of religion, astronomy, philosophy, physics, ethno-psychological, geopolitical, to simultaneously metaphysical and engaged journalism. A romantic soul indulged universal harmony, but that politics Vlach mixer to fully nothingness shattered his nature. What lesson most sublime and sad at the same time, Romania can think of? ” Said Dan C. Mihailescu literary critic, a portrait made Eminescu.
He returned to the country in 1875, was director of the Central Library and substitute teacher, editor at The Courier of Iaşi, continued to publish the Literary Conversations and Maiorescu, Minister of Education, praised and helped him get a job as a school inspector for Iasi and Vaslui counties. Eminescu befriended Ioan Slavici, Iosif Vulcan, Ion Creangă, who introduced the politico-literary society Junimea, and fell in love with Veronica Micle.
In 1877 he moved to Bucharest and worked as an editor at Time, the official newspaper of the Conservative Party, which had an exceptional journalistic activity, but which ruined his health. At just 33, Eminescu showed signs of insanity. The poet suffered from manic depression and was hospitalized and nursing home at Vienna and Odessa, recovery has traveled to Italy, was cared for by family and supported by friends, and with the help of Jacob Negruzzi and Mihail Kogalniceanu managed to get a small annuity.
Mihai Eminescu died on 15 June 1889 after the beginning of his illness became more violent, and was buried under “holy lime” Bellu cemetery.
“Thus faded … the greatest poet, which he appeared and it will come ever perhaps Romanian soil. Waters will dry up in bed and the place of burial of his will spring forest or castle and one star will wither in the sky in the distance, until this earth to gather all the sap and to raise the tubule of another lily strength Fragrance its “- he wrote the poet’s death, George Călinescu.
Manuscripts, 46 volumes, about 14,000 pages, were given by Maiorescu Romanian Academy in 1902 and in 1948 was elected Eminescu post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy.

Eminescu is read today?

“Some, because it isolates Eminescu will turn it into a museum. Eminescu is a phenomenon being a great poet alive and allow all generations and stand trial. The other, his detractors … I do not understand what is novelistic Eminescu poetry and even the universal good times and are malevolent. Eminescu is a poet living, can you please or to like less “- said Eugen Simion.
Start reading his poetry at school and Romanian language teachers say that students still like Eminescu.
“It depends very much on the teachers who opened sensitivity and know what to recommend Eminescu, young people read less literary criticism, but obey their teachers. If you’re lucky a good teacher, you formed sensitivity, “says Eugen Simion in an interview with Romania Libera in January 2011.

“Get Eminescu stop that!”

It was a slogan, famous era, as a journalist at the newspaper time, Eminescu wrote about politics, parliament and government, was columnist and literary, dramatic or mundane, and his articles managed to disturb important conservative leaders. Eminescu have a worldview and a clear position regarding Romanian society and criticize politicians, regardless of political color. Writing about those games were other interests, those of your foreign people, and said that the Romanian state is a creation borrowed from the West, which has nothing to do with the soul and way of being Romanians.
“These people want to keep what they have. Not only wealth – because it would mean nothing – no! Influence vase rank in the social order, Jets (seats) in the Assembly, with one word, all poor valley of the Danube had to offer (…) all must remain dowry unassailable nullities, a change of government should not be possible “.
Or, “They built many palaces in Bucharest undoubtedly, has multiplied the number of those who live only in the capital or abroad only; country tenfold works to maintain absenteeism and luxury, as well as numerous Blankets people who have made politics a lucrative profession. ”
“The economic measures of demagogy are an ape. You see them creating new iron roads, as many industry and canals to drain the surplus population abroad, while true measures as those intended to develop skills which are germs even Romanian people. Absolute paths open competition, far from developing one of those germs, makes them dry out and degenerate, narrowing the only Romanian to that area bordered that can withstand competition in agriculture. But not all ploughmen who becomes rest? ‘Actual sounds?

Universality of Eminescu

His lyrics were read in its almost all over the world because Eminescu has been translated into 60 languages ​​from all continents.
Following its German cultural formation, the first translations of his poetic work were in German, they have made even the Queen Carmen Sylva, who called the Palace of Peles Eminescu to induce him to cooperate in its cultural projects. The first Queen of Romania wrote more poems and prose under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva, and only two people dared to submit their comments, Mihail Kogalniceanu and poet Eminescu, which after translated sovereign a short story, told with sincerity it would be better to publish it.
German translations were added and in French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Gagauz and Roma, but also in Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, Sanskrit and even Esperanto.
And in recognition of its universality, 100 years after the death of the national poet, 1989 has been declared by UNESCO “International Year Eminescu” and all UNESCO decided to declare poet Mihai Eminescu 2000.
The poem Star, the great poet who worked nine and a half, made dozens of variations and changes over 3000, Eminescu came in 2009, and the Guinness Book of Records. With the 98 stanzas, Star has been approved as the longest poem.
Also, NASA named a crater Eminescu’s name with a diameter of 125 kilometers from the planet Mercury.
And, the catalog of small planets (“Minor Planet Names – alphabetical list) among the 233 943 planets in the universe that bears a name, heading 9495 is The Planet Eminescu.