Born: 22 April 1850, Romania
Died: 3 August 1889
Country most active: Romania
Also known as: Ana Câmpeanu
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
She was born in Transylvania. Her father played an important role in the Revolution of 1848, fighting for the freedom of the Roumanian people from the Hungarian yoke.
With blue eyes, golden hair and delicate figure, she became the inspiration of the greatest Roumanian poet, Mihail Eminescu, whom she met while on a trip in Vienna in 1874. She inspired many of his more celebrated poems. She, herself, was a writer of note, beginning her literary career while in school. She wrote both in prose and in verse, and her works were published after her death, in one volume, entitled Love and Poetry.