Ioan-Aurel Pop

Ioan-Aurel Pop (born January 1, 1955) is a Romanian historian. Pop was appointed Professor of History at Babeș-Bolyai University in 1996. He has since been Chairman of the Department of Medieval History and the History of Premodern Art at Babeș-Bolyai University. Since 2012, Pop has been Rector at Babeș-Bolyai University. In 2018 he was elected President of the Romanian Academy.

His work is focused on researching the medieval history of Romanians and of Central and South-East Europe (Romanian medieval institutions, Romanian-Slavic political formations in Transylvania, the relations of Romanians from Transylvania with the extra-Carpathian Romanian space, the Byzantine influence on Romanians, the relations of Transylvania with Europe Central and Western, the ethnic and confessional structure of Transylvania).[1] He is a nationalist.[2] After the appearance of the book History and myth in the Romanian consciousness by Lucian Boia, Pop published a book in reply, partially rejecting the deconstructivist thesis of the Bucharest historian. He also developed alternative school textbooks for high school.[3][4]

Biography

Pop went to school in Brasov, and then, after completing the compulsory military internship, he studied Medieval History between 1975–1979 at "Babeș-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca.

He gained his Ph.D in history in 1989, with a thesis on "The Cenesial Assemblies of Transylvania in the XIV - XVI centuries".[5]

References
  1. "Istoricul Ioan-Aurel Pop, la "Întâlnirile SpectActor"". Agenția de carte (in Romanian). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  2. "Academia Română intră oficial în zodia naţionalismului. Noul preşedinte Ioan Aurel Pop e protectorul lui Ponta şi un admirator al curentului naţionalist din Ungaria, Polonia şi Cehia". g4media.ro. (in Romanian). Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  3. Istorie. Clasa a X-a, [Coordonare] Cluj-Napoca, 1999 (ediția I), 2002 (ediția a II-a), 215 p. (in collaboration with Victor Moldovan)
  4. Istorie. Clasa a XI-a, Cluj-Napoca, 2005
  5. CV Ioan-Aurel POP, Hotnews, 2012.


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