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

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 conştiinţa 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 naţională ['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