Lucian Boia
Boia, 2019
Boia, 2019
Born (1944-02-01) February 1, 1944
Bucharest, Romania
Occupationwriter

Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944 in Bucharest) is a Romanian historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history from the deformations due to ideological propaganda. I.e. as a fighter against pseudohistory.[1]

Awards

Works

  • 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 şi ficţiune, Humanitas, 1998, 2002
  • Două secole de mitologie naţională, Humanitas, 1999, 2002, 2005
  • La Mythologie scientifique du communisme, Belles Lettres, 2000
    • Mitologia ştiinţifică a comunismului, Humanitas, 1999, 2005
  • România, ţară 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 Democraţiei, Humanitas, 2003
  • Quand les centenaires seront jeunes : L'imaginaire de la longétivité de l'Antiquité à nos jours, Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 2006
    • Mitul longevităţii: 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 şi 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

References

  1. ↑ "EVZ.ro -- Lucian Boia, vanatorul de mituri". evz.ro. 18 December 2005. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Istoricul român Lucian Boia a fost decorat de către preşedintele Ungariei" (in Romanian). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
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