Note despre istoria/istoriile lui Lucian Boia
Notes on the History/Stories of Lucian Boia

Summary/Abstract: To capture the evolution of Romanian historiography in the years after 1989, the example of the historian Lucian Boia is revealing. The Romanian historian from Bucharest belongs to a brilliant generation of professors of the Faculty of History in the capital city. Until 1990, when he became a university professor, Lucian Boia was, in turn, a preparator (1967-1973), an assistant (1973-1977) and a lecturer (1977-1990). Before founding and managing the History Center of the Imaginary (1993), he was a founding member, general secretary and vice-president of the International Commission for the History of Historiography (1980-1990). Also, between 1975 and 1993, he was editorial secretary at the Annales of the University of Bucharest, history series, and between 1968-1869 he was a scholarship holder in Prague. Historian Boia’s preoccupation with the imaginary began around 1983/4 and was anchored in an intense reading of French historiography. The research of the imaginary was then in full ascension in European historiography, therefore the promotion of this field of the new history was beneficial for Romania. His work is extensive and includes various themes, both about the theory and methodology of the imaginary, as well as about events and phenomena from Romanian and European history. It is noteworthy the way in which Lucian Boia moves from one subject to another, from one history to another, from one way of writing history to another, from one research method to another, from works with a broad perspective to studies closer to details.

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