- Radu Florescu
Radu Florescu (born
23 October ,1925 ) is a Romanian academic who holds the position ofEmeritus Professor ofHistory atBoston College . He was Director of theEast European Research Center at Boston College.Florescu was born in
Bucharest . He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Christ Church, Oxford inGreat Britain , before moving to theUnited States , where he completed his Ph.D. at Indiana University.He has written many academic articles and books on Romanian history. He is the author (or co-author with
Raymond T. McNally ) of several other books on Romanian and East European history, including "Essays on Roumanian History", "The Struggle against Russia in the Romanian Principalities", "Dracula: Prince of Many Faces", "In Search of Dracula ", and "In Search of Frankenstein".From 1996 to 2004, Florescu served as Honorary Consul for
New England by the Romanian Foreign Ministry, the first person to be appointed to such a position in the United States. His first job as honorary consul was to oversee voting by Boston-area Romanian citizens in one of the first democratic Romanian elections since the Revolution of 1989. He is now Emeritus Honorary Consul.Books
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*External links
* [http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v5/O31/romania.html "Romania Names Florescu Honorary Consul for N.E."] , at Boston College
* [http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/InfoPages/cv.html Brief CV] , at the Honorary Consulate of Romania, Boston
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