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Romanian historian
Lucian Boia
(born 1 February 1944) is a
Romanian
historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history of deformations arising from ideological propaganda, and as a fighter against
pseudohistory
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Biography
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Boia was born and raised in the
Cotroceni
neighborhood of
Bucharest
. In 1967 he graduated from the Faculty of History at the
University of Bucharest
, after which he was a teaching assistant and then assistant professor at his alma mater. Since 1990, he is a professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest. He lives in the
Militari
district of Bucharest.
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Works
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- Eugen Brote: (1850?1912)
Litera, 1974
- Relationships between Romanians, Czechs and Slovaks: (1848?1914)
, translated by Sanda Mihailescu, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, 1977
- L'exploration imaginaire de l'espace
, La Decouverte, 1987 ISBN, 2707117269
- La fin du monde
, La Decouverte, 1989
- Sfir?it
, translated by Walter Fotescu, Humanitas, 1999
- Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800: An International Dictionary
(editor-in-chief), Greenwood Press, 1989
ISBN
0-313-24517-7
- Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary
(editor-in-chief), Greenwood Press, 1991
- Mituri istorice romane?ti
, Editura Universit??ii Bucure?ti, 1995
- Entre l'ange et la bete: le mythe de l'homme different de l'Antiquite a nos jours
, Plon, Paris, 1995
- Intre inger ?i fiar?: mitul omului diferit din Antichitate pin? ast?zi
, translated by Brindu?a Prelipceanu and Lucian Boia, Humanitas, 2004
- Entre El Angel y La Bestia
, Andres Bello, 1997,
ISBN
84-89691-08-8
- Miturile comunismului romanesc
, Editura Universit??ii din Bucure?ti, 1995, 1997; Nemira 1998
- Istorie ?i mit in con?tiin?a romaneasc?
, Humanitas, 1997, 2000, 2002
- Tortenelem es mitosz a roman koztudatban
, translated by Andras Janos, Kriterion, Bukarest/Kolozsvar, 1999
- Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire
, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1998
- Pentru o istorie a imaginarului
, translated by Tatiana Mochi, Humanitas, 2000, 2006
- Jocul cu trecutul: istoria intre adev?r ?i fic?iune
, Humanitas, 1998, 2002
- Dou? secole de mitologie na?ional?
, Humanitas, 1999, 2002, 2005
- La Mythologie scientifique du communisme
, Belles Lettres, 2000
- Mitologia ?tiin?ific? a comunismului
, Humanitas, 1999, 2005
- Romania, ?ar? de frontier? a Europei
Humanitas, 2002, 2005
- Romania: borderland of Europe
, translated by James Christian Brown; Reaktion Books, London, 2001
- La Roumanie: un pays a la frontiere de l'Europe
, translated by Laurent Rossion, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2003
- Rumunsko ? krajina na hranici Europy
, translated into Slovak by Hildegard Bun?akova, Kalligram, Bratislava, 2012
- Le mythe de la democratie
, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2002
- Mitul Democra?iei
, Humanitas, 2003
- Quand les centenaires seront jeunes : L'imaginaire de la longetivite de l'Antiquite a nos jours
, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2006
- Mitul longevit??ii: cum s? tr?im dou? sute de ani
, translated by Walter Fotescu, Humanitas, 1999
- Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity
, translated by Trista Selous, Hushion House, 2004
- Jules Verne: Les paradoxes d'un mythe
, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2005
- Jules Verne: paradoxurile unui mit
, Humanitas, 2005
- L'homme face au climat: l'imaginaire de la pluie et du beau temps
, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2004
- Omul ?i clima: teorii, scenarii, psihoze
, translated by Valentina Nicolaie, Humanitas, 2005
- The Weather in the Imagination
, Reaktion Books, 2005
- De ce este Romania altfel?
, Humanitas, 2012
ISBN
9735038382
- Miert mas Romania?
, translated by Istvan Rostas-Peter, Koinonia, Kolozsvar, 2013
- Cum s-a romanizat Romania
, Humanitas, 2015
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