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Camil Bujor Mureșanu (; 20 April 1927 – 21 February 2015) was a
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n historian, professor and author.


Biography

Mureșanu was born and reared in
Turda Turda (; , ; ; ) is a Municipiu, city in Cluj County, Transylvania, Romania. It is located in the southeastern part of the county, from the county seat, Cluj-Napoca, to which it is connected by the European route E81, and from nearby Câmpia ...
. He attended the King Ferdinand High School in Turda, where his father, Teodor Murășanu, was a teacher. After 1946, he studied history at the
University of Cluj A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...
, where he graduated in June 1950. In the summer of 1948, Camil Mureșanu was arrested for political reasons by the communist authorities, without penal sanctions. He became a teaching assistant, junior teaching assistant (1950–1952), assistant professor (1952–1961), associate professor (1961–1975), and professor (after 1975) at
Babeș-Bolyai University The Babeș-Bolyai University ( , , commonly known as UBB) is a public research university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Established in 1581 as Academia Claudiopolitana, it underwent several reorganizations over the centuries, eventually taking ...
. Also, he was the dean of Faculty of History (1968–1976, 1981–1989). He obtained his Ph.D. in history in 1971 with the thesis: Times of
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(doctoral adviser Ṣtefan Pascu). He was visiting professor at
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, in
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(1978). Mureșanu was a doctoral adviser after 1976. He was a researcher at the "George Barițiu" History Institute (after 1975). In 1995, he became the principal of "George Barițiu" History Institute. He was a corresponding member of the
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(1990), then member of the Romanian Academy – the History and Archaeology Section (June 2000) and branch chairman of Cluj Romanian Academy (after 2006). He was a participant at the International Congress of Historical Sciences (
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– 1965,
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– 1970,
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– 1980,
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– 2000). He attended a specialisation at Sorbonne University in
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(February – June 1966). He was a correspondent member of the "Süd-ost Europa Gesellschaft",
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(October 1999), and
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(February 26, 2000), as well as a correspondent member of the Pedagogical Academy in
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. He was the co-president of the Romanian-Hungarian mixed history commission. Camil Mureșanu was a
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of the University of Oradea (December 1, 1999), the
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(March 2002), and the 1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia (March 2007). He was an honorary citizen of
Cluj-Napoca Cluj-Napoca ( ; ), or simply Cluj ( , ), is a city in northwestern Romania. It is the second-most populous city in the country and the seat of Cluj County. Geographically, it is roughly equidistant from Bucharest (), Budapest () and Belgrade ( ...
(February 1997), Turda (June 1997), and
Blaj Blaj (; archaically spelled as ''Blaș''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Blußendref'') is a city in Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It has a population of 17,816 inhabitants as of 2021. The city administers eight villages: Deleni-Obârșie ('' ...
(September 24, 1999). He was a member of General Association of Greek Catholic Romanians.


Family

His grandfather was a priest and his father, Teodor Murășanu, was a Romanian language teacher. His son, Ovidiu Mureșan (born 1951), is a historian at Babeș-Bolyai University.


Awards

* Award of the
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(1976) * The
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awarded him the National Order of Merit in the rank of officer.


Works

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. Defender of Christendom''. Iași – Oxford – Portland, The Center for Romanian Studies, 2001, 224 p. *''Ioan de Hunedoara și vremea sa'', București, Editura Tineretului, 1957, 203 p. *''Revoluția burgheză din Anglia'', București 1964 *''Erdély története'', vol. 2, București 1964, n collaboration*''Monumente istorice din Turda'', București 1968 *''Beziehungen zwischen der rumänischen und sächsischer Forschung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert'', în: Wege landeskundlicher Forschung, Köln-Wien 1988 Siebenbürgisches Archiv, Bd. 21 *''Națiune, naționalism. Evoluția naționalităților'', Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj 1996 *Focul ocrotit de ape (Revoluția burgheză din Țările de Jos). București, Editura Ştiințifică, 1960, 179 p. *Din istoria Transilvaniei. Vol 2. București, Editura Academiei, 1961, 462 p.; Ediţia a 2‑a în 1963, 550 p. n collaboration *Lecturi din izvoarele istoriei evului mediu. București, Editura de Stat Didactică si Pedagogică, 1961, 281 p. n collaboration *Istoria României. Vol. 2. București, Editura Academiei, 1962, 1259 p. n collaboration *Erdély története. Vol. 2. București, Editura Academiei, 1964, 558 p. n collaboration *Istoria României. Vol. 4. București, Editura Academiei, 1964, 861 p. n collaboration *Revoluția burgheză din Anglia. București, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1964, 341 p. *Imperiul Britanic. Scurtă istorie. București, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1967, 502 p. *Iancu de Hunedoara. Ed. a 2‑a revăzută și adăugită. București, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1968, 245 p. *Monumente istorice din Turda București, Editura Meridiane, 1968, 32 p. *Atlas istoric. Coordonator Ștefan Pascu. București, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1971, 199 p. n collaboration *Culegere de texte pentru istorie universală. Epoca modernă. Vol. l: 1640‑1848. București, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 1973, 360 p. n collaboration *Culegere de texte pentru istorie universală. Epoca modernă. Vol. 2 : 1848‑1918. București, Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 1974, 350 p. n collaboration *Președinte la Casa Albă. București, Editura Politică, 1974, 699 p. n collaboration *Iancu de Hunedoara. București, Editura Militară, 1976, 128 p. *Atlas pentru istoria României. București, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 1983, 30 p. + 84 h. + 12 pl. + 26 p. index. n collaboration *Simon Bolivar (1783‑1830). București, Editura Politică, 1983, 135 p. *Downing Street 10. Cluj‑Napoca, "Dacia", 1984, 401 p. n collaboration *Istoria militară a poporului român. Vol. 2. Epoca de glorie a oastei celei mari. A doua jumătate a secolului al XlV‑lea – prima jumătate a secolului al XVI‑lea. București, Editura Militară, 1986, 638 p. n collaboration *Istoria militară a poporului român. Vol. 4. Epoca revoluțiilor de eliberare națională şi socială. De la revoluția populară din 1784 la cucerirea independenței depline 1877–1878. București, Editura Militară, 1987, XII, +1105 p. n collaboration *Bezichungen zwischen der rumänischen und sächsischer Forschung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, in Wege landeakundlicher Forschung. Köln und Wien, Böhlau Verlag, 1988, p. 277‑288. (Siebenbürgischen Archiv, Bd. 21). *Documente privind revoluţia de la 1848 în Țările Române. C. Transilvania. Vol. 4 : 14‑25 mai 1848. București, Editura Academiei, 1988, XLVIII+ 599 p. *Președinții Franței. Craiova, Universalia Dialog, 1991, 231 p. n collaboration *Momente din istoria Europei. Cluj-Napoca, Universitatea "Babeș-Bolyai", 1996, 293 p. *Naţiune, naţionalism. Evoluţia naţionalităţilor. Cluj‑Napoca, Centrul de Studii Transilvane. Fundaţia Culturală Română, 1996, 308 p. *Vieți, fapte, gânduri. Craiova, Editura OMNISCOP, 1996, 198 p. *Europa modernă. De la Renaștere la sfârșitul de mileniu. Cluj‑Napoca, Editura Dacia, 1997, 126 p. *Transilvania între medieval și modern. Vol. 1–2. Coordonator ..., Cluj‑Napoca, 1996, 160 p.; 1997, 48 p. *Revoluţia de la 1848–1849 în Europa Centrală. Perspectivă istorică şi istoriografică. Coordonatori: Camil Mureşanu, Nicolae Bocşan, Ioan Bolovan, Cluj‑Napoca, Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2000, 472 p. *Istoria românilor. Vol. 4. De la universalitatea creştină către Europa "patriilor". Comitetul de redacție al volumului: acad. Ștefan Ștefănescu și acad. Camil Mureșanu, redactori responsabili, prof. univ. Tudor Teoteoi, secretary, București, Editura Enciclopedică, 2001, 878 p. + pl. + il. uthor al paginilor: 31–54; 338–348; 502–524 *Istorie şi cunoaştere. Discurs de recepţie la Academia Română, București, Editura Academiei Române, 2002, 20 p.; In: Academica, 2001, 12, nr. 1–2, p. 30-31; MI, 2002, 36, nr. 2, p. 33–38. *În templul lui Ianus. Studii și gânduri despre trecut și viitor. Cluj‑Napoca, Editura Cartimpex, 2002, 345 p. *Documenta Romaniae Historica. Series C. Transilvania. Vol. XIV: 1371‑1375. Editura Academiei Române, 2002, 815 p. ditor *Publilius Syrus, Maxime. Text original, traducere din limba latină și note de ..., Cluj-Napoca, Editura Cartimpex, 2002, 104 p. *Ioan Lupaș, Scrieri istorice alese. Vol. 2. Studii privind istoria modernă și istoria istoriografiei. Ediție îngrijită de..., București, Editura Academiei Române, 2007, 525 p.


Doctoral advisor

* Ovidiu Achim, Rolul Tribunei și tribunismului în mișcarea națională și culturală ardelenă la sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea (1995) * Minerva Lovin, Emigrația românească din Transilvania în Canada în 1920 (1997) * Teodora Daniela Sechel, Politica sanitară promovată de Habsburgi în Transilvania între 1740–1835. Disciplina socială impusă de authorități ca oconsecință an acestei politici de reformă (1999) * Demetra Marica Gui, Interferențe franceze în pictura modernă românească (de la Grigorescu la Tonitza) (2002) * Daciana Marinescu, Interferențe în evoluția învățământului pedagogic și teologic Arădean (1812–1877) (2002) * Ovidiu Munteanu, Imaginea poporului român și a Țărilor Române în mediul cultural-politic francez 1829–1859 (2002) * Cosmin Lucian Seman, Ioan Micu Moldovan (1833–1915). Monografie istorica. (2004) * Vasile Florin Mirgheșiu, Vasile Stoica - gânditor politic şi diplomat (2004)


References


Bibliography

* Națiune și europenitate. Studii istorice. In honorem magisti Camilli Mureşanu, București, Editura Academiei Române, 2007, XXXV + 467 p. * Professor Camil Mureșanu at His 75th Anniversary (Cluj, 1997) * Bio-Bibliography of Prof. Dr. Camil Mureșanu, member-correspondent of the Romanian Academy, on the occasion of his 70th anniversary. Introduction by Nicolae Edroiu. The bibliography of Prof. Dr. Camil Mureșanu's work, (1955–1997) written by Maria Pagu and Karolyi Iolanda, Cluj-Napoca, 1997, 68 p. * Cristian Colceriu, ''Noblețea profesiei- Funcția integratoare a istoricului'', in ''Elite Clujene Contemporane Cluj Contemporary Elites'', Academia Româna - Centrul de Studii Transilvane, vol.I, Ed. Clear Vison, Cluj Napoca, 2009 {{DEFAULTSORT:Muresanu, Camil 1927 births 2015 deaths People from Turda Romanian political scientists Babeș-Bolyai University alumni Academic staff of Babeș-Bolyai University Romanian schoolteachers Romanian Greek-Catholics Romanian biographers Romanian male biographers Romanian textbook writers 20th-century Romanian historians Romanian journalists Romanian memoirists Romanian civil servants Romanian activists 20th-century Romanian anthropologists Romanian Christian pacifists Romanian literary critics Romanian magazine editors Romanian philologists Romanian political philosophers Social philosophers Romanian male essayists 20th-century Romanian essayists 20th-century Romanian male writers 20th-century Romanian philanthropists Titular members of the Romanian Academy Recipients of the National Order of Merit (Romania)