Ioan-Aurel Pop

Ioan-Aurel Pop during a conference in 2019

Ioan-Aurel Pop (born 1 January 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 and re-elected in 2022.

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 Transylvania, 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.[1] 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.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Istoricul Ioan-Aurel Pop, la "Întâlnirile SpectActor"". www.agentiadecarte.ro (in Romanian). 23 May 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  2. ^ Istorie. Clasa a X-a, [Coordonare] Cluj-Napoca, 1999 (ediția I), 2002 (ediția a II-a), 215 p. (in collaboration with Victor Moldovan)
  3. ^ Istorie. Clasa a XI-a, Cluj-Napoca, 2005