Ioan-Aurel Pop (born 1 January 1955) is a

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n historian. Pop was appointed Professor of History at

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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

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at Babeș-Bolyai University. In 2018 he was elected President of the

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. His work is focused on researching the medieval history of Romanians and of Central and South-East Europe, including Romanian medieval institutions, Romanian-Slavic political formations in

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, the relations of Romanians from Transylvania with the extra-Carpathian Romanian space, the Byzantine influence on Romanians, the relations of Transylvania with Central and Western Europe, and the ethnic and confessional structure of Transylvania. He is a nationalist. After the appearance of the book ''History and myth in the Romanian consciousness'' by

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, Pop published a book in reply, partially rejecting the deconstructivist thesis of the Bucharest historian. He also developed alternative school textbooks for high school.

Biography

Pop was born in Sântioana,

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. He went to school in

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, and then, after completing compulsory military service, he studied Medieval History between 1975–1979 at Babeș-Bolyai University in

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

. He gained his Ph.D in history in 1989, with a thesis on "The Cenesial Assemblies of Transylvania in the 14th-16th centuries".''CV Ioan-Aurel POP''

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, 2012. In 2010, Pop was awarded by then-

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, the , Knight rank. In 2015, he was awarded the

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, Knight rank. In 2020, he was awarded by

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the

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, Commander rank.

References

External links

Ioan-Aurel Pop
at the website of

1955 births Living people People from Cluj County Babeș-Bolyai University alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni 21st-century Romanian historians Historians of Romania Romanian art historians Romanian medievalists Romanian nationalists Academic staff of Babeș-Bolyai University Rectors of Babeș-Bolyai University Presidents of the Romanian Academy Commanders of the Order of the Crown (Romania) Knights of the Order of the Star of Romania Recipients of the Order of Cultural Merit (Romania) {{Romania-academic-bio-stub