12 Facts About Radu Florescu

Radu Florescu was a Romanian academic who held the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College.

At the time of his death, Radu Florescu was considered the patriarch of the Florescu family.

Radu Florescu was born in Bucharest to an aristocratic Radu Florescu family, one of the oldest of the extant Romanian Boyar families.

Radu Florescu left Romania at the outbreak of World War II and moved to London, as his father, a pro-Allied diplomat who served under Romanian Minister Viorel Tilea to the United Kingdom, defied a recall order from the pro-Axis government of Ion Antonescu.

In protest of Romania's new alliance with Nazi Germany, Radu Florescu's father resigned his post and joined the Free Rumanian Committee in opposition to the fascist Antonescu regime.

Radu Florescu moved to Indiana University Bloomington in the United States for his doctorate.

Radu Florescu created a diplomatic bridge between the United States and Romania.

Radu Florescu advised Edward Kennedy on matters of the Balkans, and served as the press liaison for the White House during the state visit of President Richard Nixon in 1969 in Romania.

In 1986, Radu Florescu became the Director of the East European Research Center at Boston College and remained in that position until his retirement in 2008.

From 1996 to 2004, Radu Florescu served as Honorary Consul for New England by the Romanian Foreign Ministry, the first person to hold such a position in the United States.

Radu Florescu died on May 18,2014, in Mougins, France from complications of pneumonia.

Radu Florescu wrote about literary creations like Frankenstein with In Search of Frankenstein and the Pied Piper of Hamelin with In Search of the Pied Piper.