Ioan-Aurel Pop

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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]