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Chronology
/ Life, Creation, Cultural Context
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Selected Poems – Iancu Văcărescu •
1832. Poems – Grigore Alexandrescu •
1835. Academia Mihăileană (The Michaelian Academy) – the first institute of higher education, offering courses of History, Law, Architecture, Chemistry and Mathematics
– is inaugurated in Jassy. • Birth of the Romanian painter
Nicolae Grigorescu (d. 1912). • 1836, December 27. Paraschiva Iurascu (Dontu), the poet's maternal grandmother, dies.
• 1838. Gazeta de Transilvania (The Transylvania
Journal) – the first publication of the Romanians from the Transylvanian
province – with the supplement entitled Foaie pentru minte, inima si literatură
(Newspaper for brain, heart and literature), is issued by Gh. Baritiu in Brasov.
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1839, January 10. Birth at Humulesti (Neamt) of the writer Ion
Creangă (d. 1889). • Birth of
the Romanian musicologist Theodor I. Burada (d.1923). •
1840, June 29. Gheorghe Eminovici marries Raluca Iurascu. •
February. 15. Titu Maiorescu, the future literary critic and
mentor of the Junimea Literary Circle of Jassy, outstanding member of the
Conservative Party, is born in Craiova. • In
Jassy, Mihail Kogălniceanu edits the journal Dacia literară (The
literary Dacia), the program of which is meant at encouraging
specifically national creations, inspired by the Romanian folklore and
national history. Its most imposing collaborators – Vasile
Alecsandri, Constantin Negruzzi, Alecu Russo – support the idea of
putting together aesthetic and ethic aspects, and lay stress on
art's socialand patriotic mission. Dacia literară played an essential
part in the crystallization of the 1848 generation's ideology. •
Vasile Alecsandri's debut in Jassy, with the play entitled Farmazonul din
Hârlău (The Masher of Hârlău). •
1841. Serban, the first child in the Eminovici family,
is born. He'll complete his primary and gymnasium education in Chernovitz;
medical studies in Vienna and Erlagen. Although he never obtained an
universitary degree, he professed as a doctor in Berlin. Dies at 33,
striken by tuberculosis. • May, 12. Gh.
Eminovici receives from Mihail Sturza – the Prince of Moldavia –
the rank of collector of duties on spirits. •
Birth of Iosif Vulcan, future editor and director of Familia
(The Family), a magazine to be issued in Pesta (1865-1880) and
Oradea (1880-1906). • Birth of Eduard
Caudella, Romanian violonist, professor and composer. •
1842, January 2. The Eminovici buy a row of houses in the
vicinity of the Uspenia Church in Botosani; the houses will remain in
their property until 1855. • 1843, February
2. Birth of Nicolae (Nicu), the second son of
Gheorghe and Raluca Eminovici. After gymnasium studies in Chernovitz, Nicu
will attend the Faculty of Law in Sibiu, he, too, without
obtaining a diploma. 
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