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Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944 in
Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north o ...
) is a
Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania ** Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditiona ...
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 Pseudohistory is a form of pseudoscholarship that attempts to distort or misrepresent the historical record, often by employing methods resembling those used in scholarly historical research. The related term cryptohistory is applied to pseudohi ...
.


Awards

* 2018 –
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...
in rank of knight * 2020 – Knight's Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary The Hungarian Order of Merit ( hu, Magyar Érdemrend) is the fourth highest State Order of Hungary. Founded in 1991, the order is a revival of an original order founded in 1946 and abolished in 1949. Its origins, however, can be traced to the O ...


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 * ''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, * ''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 ** ''Miért más Románia?'', translated by István Rostás-Péter, Koinónia, Kolozsvár, 2013 * ''Cum s-a românizat România'', Humanitas, 2015


See also

* Dacianism


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Author profile
at Shelfari {{DEFAULTSORT:Boia, Lucian 1944 births 19th-century Romanian historians 20th-century Romanian historians Historians of Romania Living people Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Romanian writers in French Scientific skepticism University of Bucharest alumni University of Bucharest faculty