Lucian Boia
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.
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.

Awards
2018 – Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in rank of knight
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 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
Dacianism

References
External links
Author profile, at Shelfari