Mihai Cimpoi

Mihai Cimpoi
Cimpoi in 2010
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office
5 May 2009  29 July 2009
Parliamentary groupOur Moldova Alliance
In office
21 April 1998  20 March 2001
Parliamentary groupDemocratic Convention
People's Deputy of the Soviet Union
In office
26 March 1989  18 October 1991
ConstituencyChișinău
Personal details
Born (1942-09-03) 3 September 1942
Larga, Kingdom of Romania
Political partyAlliance Our Moldova
Alliance for European Integration (2009–present)
Other political
affiliations
Popular Front of Moldova
Alma materMoldova State University

Mihai Cimpoi (born 3 September 1942) is a Moldovan politician, a distinguished cultural scientist, Romanian academician, critic and literary historian, eminescologist, literary editor and Bessarabian essayist. "Emeritus of the Republic of Moldova", two decades elected president of the Union of Writers of Moldova, deputy in the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1999 and 2001, Mihai Cimpoi is the author of some fundamental works such as: "An Open History of the Romanian literature in Bessarabia" (in several editions) and "Mihai Eminescu. Encyclopedic Dictionary" - a unique monumental work. Mihai Cimpoi is the author and developer of the long-term project "The World Congress of Eminescologists", launched in 2012 and became a tradition.