Lucian Boia

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.

Biography

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 has been a professor at the Faculty of History at the University of Bucharest. He lives in the Militari district of Bucharest.

Awards

• 2018 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Knight rank
• 2020 – Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
• 2021 – Knight of the French Legion of Honour

Works

• Eugen Brote: (1850–1912) Litera, 1974
• Relationships between Romanians, Czechs and Slovaks 1848–1914, translated by Sanda Mihăilescu, Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania Press, 1977
• L'exploration imaginaire de l'espace ['The imaginary exploration of space'], La Découverte, 1987
• La fin du monde ['The end of the world'], La Découverte, 1989
• Sfîrşit ['End'], translated by Walter Fotescu, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999
• Great Historians from Antiquity to 1800: An International Dictionary (editor-in-chief), Greenwood Press, 1989
• Great Historians of the Modern Age: An International Dictionary (editor-in-chief), Greenwood Press, 1991
• Mituri istorice româneşti ['Romanian historical myths'], Bucharest University Press, 1995
• Entre l'ange et la bête. Le mythe de l'homme différent de l'Antiquité a nos jours ['Between angel and beast: the myth of the different human from antiquity until today'], Plon, Paris, 1995
• Între înger şi fiară: mitul omului diferit din Antichitate pînă astăzi, translated by Brînduşa Prelipceanu and Lucian Boia, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2004
• Entre el ángel y la bestia, Andres Bello, 1997,
• Miturile comunismului românesc ['The myths of Romanian communism'], Editura Universităţii din București, 1995, 1997; Nemira 1998
• Istorie şi mit în conştiinÅ£a românească ['History and myth in Romanian conscience'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 1997, 2000, 2002
• Történelem és mítosz a román köztudatban, translated to Hungarian by András János, Kriterion, Bucharest & Cluj, 1999
• Pour une histoire de l'imaginaire ['For a history of the imaginary'], Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1998
• Pentru o istorie a imaginarului, translated to Romanian by Tatiana Mochi, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2000, 2006
• Jocul cu trecutul: istoria între adevăr și ficțiune ['The past as a game: history between truth and fiction'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 1998, 2002
• Două secole de mitologie naÅ£ională ['Two centuries of national mythology'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999, 2002, 2005
• La mythologie scientifique du communisme ['The scientific mythology of communism'], Belles Lettres, Paris, 2000
• Mitologia științifică a comunismului, Romanian translation, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999, 2005
• România, țară de frontieră a Europei Humanitas, Bucharest, 2002, 2005
• Romania: Borderland of Europe, translated by James Christian Brown; Reaktion Books, London, 2001
• La Roumanie: un pays à 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 ['The myth of democracy'], Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2002
• Mitul democrației, Romanian translation, Humanitas, Bucharest, 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 to Romanian by Walter Fotescu, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999
• Forever Young: A Cultural History of Longevity, translated by Trista Selous, Hushion House, 2004
• Jules Verne : les paradoxes d'un mythe ['Jules Verne: the paradoxes of a myth'], Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2005
• Jules Verne: paradoxurile unui mit, Humanitas, Bucharest, 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, Bucharest, 2005
• The Weather in the Imagination, Reaktion Books, 2005
• De ce este Romania altfel? ['Why is Romania different?'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 2012
• Miért más Románia?, translated to Hungarian by István Rostás-Péter, Koinónia, Cluj, 2013
• Primul Razboi Mondial: controverse, paradoxuri, reinterpretari ['The First World War: controversies, paradoxes, reinterpretations'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 2014,
• Први светски рат. Контроверзе, парадокси, измењена тумачења, Belgrade, 2015,
• Der Erste Weltkrieg: Kontroversen, Paradoxa, Neudeutungen, Schiller, Bonn, 2016
• Cum s-a românizat România ['How Romania became Romanianised?'], Humanitas, Bucharest, 2015

See also

• Dacianism

References

External links

• Author profile, at Shelfari