The Romanians from everywhere today render homage to the Absolute Romanian Mihai Eminescu, who was born 158 years ago in the family of the collector of duties on spirits Gheorghe Eminovici, who was the descendant of a family of Romanian peasants from the north of Moldova, and of the daughter of a steward Raluca Eminovici, born Jurascu. The single poet, the great fighter for the unification of the nation and the inconvenient Mihai Eminescu will unite the thoughts and souls of all the Romanians that are happy to have had such a conational that sang the love and grieves of the Romanians and suffered for the “forgotten” Romanians from abroad. Eminescu, as no one else of his time, carried out press campaigns on the Bessarabia issue, criticised the Parliament for estranging Bessarabia, was intransigent at the tsarist oppression policy, which he called “cruel barbarity“, and at the policy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “Joyful and sad, communicative and sullen, kind and severe, satisfied with little and unsatisfied with everything, sometimes abstinent like a recluse and sometimes greedy for pleasures, running away from people and then looking for them, apathetic like a stoical old man and irritable like a nervous girl – What an odd combination! – lucky for the artist and unlucky for the man!..., Ion Luca Caragiale wrote about Eminescu. According to Caragiale, Eminescu looked like a saintly young man that came down from an icon, a child destined for pain who bore the shadow of the future pains on his face. The modern researches say that Eminescu was poisoned with quicksilver. Some of them say that he became inconvenient owing to his journalistic stories, while others say the mercury-based medicines he was taking had been overdosed. In an article in the paper “Freedom” published in New York in 1987, neuropsychiatrist Ovidiu Vuia says: “As scientific researcher and author of over one hundred works on brain pathology, I can definitively say that Eminescu did not suffer from syphilis and paralytic dementia“. Those that knew him say that before his death, Eminescu was able and willing to work so that he could not have suffered from paralysis or aboulia. When he died, he had in the pocket of his coat the poems “Life” and “Stars on the Sky”, written by hand. The poet Mihai Eminescu died in the convalescent home of Doctor Shutsu, situated on Plantelor Street in Bucharest, at about 3am on June 15, 1889. On June 17, Eminescu was buried under a linden tree in Bellu cemetery.