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 is a professor in 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 Legion of Honour

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 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