Dinu C. Giurescu (15 February 1927 – 24 April 2018) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n historian and politician.

Biography

He was born 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 of ...

in 1927, the son of historian

Constantin C. Giurescu Constantin C. Giurescu (; 26 October 1901 – 13 November 1977) was a Romanian historian, member of the Romanian Academy, and professor at the University of Bucharest. Born in Focșani, son of historian Constantin Giurescu (historian), Constant ...

. After attending the Saint Sava High School, he graduated from the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

's Faculty of History in 1950, and obtained his PhD in History from the same university in 1968. That year he became a professor at the Bucharest National University of Arts, where he taught until 1987. Giurescu emigrated to the

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in 1988, where he published ''The Razing of Romania's Past'', an analysis of the

Nicolae Ceaușescu Nicolae Ceaușescu ( , ; – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician and dictator. He was the general secretary of the Romanian Communist Party from 1965 to 1989, and the second and last Communist leader of Romania. He ...

regime's policy toward the country's architectural heritage. He returned from exile in 1990, whereupon he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, and a titular member in 2001. From 1990 to 2011 he was a professor of history at the University of Bucharest. In 2012, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for a Bucharest seat, representing the Conservative Party.2012- profile
at the Chamber of Deputies site; accessed 31 July 2013 He died of

myocardial infarction A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to the coronary artery of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle. The most common symptom is chest pain or discomfort which may ...

at his home in Bucharest in 2018.

Publications

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Giurescu, Dinu 1927 births 2018 deaths 20th-century Romanian historians 21st-century Romanian historians Titular members of the Romanian Academy Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Conservative Party (Romania) politicians Romanian expatriates in the United States University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the Bucharest National University of Arts Saint Sava National College alumni Politicians from Bucharest