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 β The poet's manuscripts , containing 46 volumes and approximately 14, pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January In his poems, he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects.
His father was Gheorghe Eminovici, an aristocrat from Bukovina , which was then part of the Austrian Empire while his grandfather came from Banat. The most accepted theory is that Mihail's paternal ancestors came from a Romanian family from Banat.
In , a child was born with the name Iminul. The priest Iovul Iminovici left Banat for Blaj between , attracted by civil liberties, agricultural land for a fee and free education in the Romanian language for his children, but on the condition of becoming an Eastern-Rite Catholic. Iovul Iminovici had two sons, Iosif and Petrea Iminovici. After a while, the spouses Petrea and Agafia divorced.
Petrea died in Blaj in , and Agafia accompanied the family of her son, Vasile, to Bukovina. He had four daughters and three sons. Vasile Iminovici died in The eldest of his sons, Gheorghe, born in was the father of Mihai Eminescu.
He finished 4th grade as the 5th of 82 students, after which he attended two years of gymnasium. The first evidence of Eminescu as a writer is in This began a steady series of published poems and the occasional translation from German. Also, it was Iosif Vulcan, who disliked the Slavic source suffix " -ici " of the young poet's last name, that chose for him the more apparent Romanian " nom de plume " Mihai Eminescu.
