Lucian Boia
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Lucian Boia | |
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 Boia, 2019 | |
| Born | February 1, 1944 Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Notable awards | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Legion of Honour |
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.[1]
Biography
[edit]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.[2]
Awards
[edit]- 2018 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Knight rank[3]
- 2020 – Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary[3]
- 2021 – Knight of the Legion of Honour[4]
Works
[edit]- Eugen Brote: (1850–1912) Litera, 1974
- Relationships between Romanians, Czechs and Slovaks: (1848–1914), translated by Sanda Mihailescu, Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1977
- L'exploration imaginaire de l'espace, La Découverte, 1987 ISBN, 2707117269
- La fin du monde, La Découverte, 1989
- Sfîrşit, 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 româneşti, Editura Universităţii București, 1995
- Entre l'ange et la bete: le mythe de l'homme different de l'Antiquite a nos jours, Plon, Paris, 1995
- Între înger şi fiară: mitul omului diferit din Antichitate pînă astăzi, translated by Brînduşa Prelipceanu and Lucian Boia, Humanitas, 2004
- Entre El Angel y La Bestia, Andres Bello, 1997, ISBN 84-89691-08-8
- Miturile comunismului românesc, Editura Universităţii din București, 1995, 1997; Nemira 1998
- Istorie şi mit în conştiinţa românească, Humanitas, 1997, 2000, 2002
- Történelem és mítosz a román köztudatban, translated by András János, Kriterion, Bukarest/Kolozsvár, 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 între adevăr și ficțiune, Humanitas, 1998, 2002
- Două secole de mitologie naţională, Humanitas, 1999, 2002, 2005
- La Mythologie scientifique du communisme, Belles Lettres, 2000
- Mitologia științifică a comunismului, Humanitas, 1999, 2005
- România, țară de frontieră a Europei Humanitas, 2002, 2005
- Romania: borderland of Europe, translated by James Christian Brown; Reaktion Books, London, 2001
- La Roumanie: un pays a la frontière de l'Europe, translated by Laurent Rossion, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2003
- Rumunsko — krajina na hranici Európy, translated into Slovak by Hildegard Bunčáková, Kalligram, Bratislava, 2012
- Le mythe de la démocratie, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2002
- Mitul Democrației, Humanitas, 2003
- Quand les centenaires seront jeunes : L'imaginaire de la longétivité de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2006
- Mitul longevității: cum să trăim două 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 și 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
- Miért más Románia?, translated by István Rostás-Péter, Koinónia, Kolozsvár, 2013
- Cum s-a românizat România, Humanitas, 2015
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Lucian Boia, vânătorul de mituri". Evenimentul Zilei. 18 December 2005. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
- ^ Constantin, Carmen (October 11, 2014). "Prof. dr. Lucian Boia, istoric: "Școala? Nu mi-a plăcut!"". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ a b "Istoricul român Lucian Boia a fost decorat de către președintele Ungariei". Mediafax (in Romanian). 22 January 2020. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
- ^ Țaga, Maria (June 22, 2021). "Istoricul Lucian Boia a primit însemnele de Cavaler al Legiunii de Onoare". Adevărul (in Romanian). Retrieved March 5, 2024.
External links
[edit]- Author profile, at Shelfari
Categories:
- 1944 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Romanian historians
- 21st-century Romanian historians
- Historians of Romania
- University of Bucharest alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Bucharest
- Romanian writers in French
- Scientific skepticism
- Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
- Knights of the Legion of Honour