 Often portrayed as an amateurish and inconsequential presence in Romanian literature and science, Urechia was involved in a decade-long controversy with "Junimea", a conservative literary society which advocated professionalization.Among those involved on the "Junimist" side were literary critic Titu Maiorescu and poet Mihai Eminescu.Like other contributors to the liberal magazine "Revista Contimporană", Urechia was a notorious target of Maiorescu's campaign against "inebriation with words", and ultimately sided with the anti-"Junimist" author Alexandru Macedonski, becoming a contributor to "Literatorul" magazine.