Radu florescu biography books

Romanian academic

Radu Florescu (23 October 1925 – 18 May 2014) was a Romanian academic who held the position of Emeritus Professor of History at Boston College. His work on Vlad Dracula includes a series of bestselling^[1] books that he co-authored with his colleague Raymond T.

McNally. Along with serving as Director of the East European Research Center at Boston College, Florescu was also a philanthropist and an adviser to Edward Kennedy on Balkan and Eastern European affairs. At the time of his death, Radu Florescu was considered the patriarch of the Florescu family [ro].^[2]

Life

Escape from Romania

Florescu was born in Bucharest to an aristocraticFlorescu family [ro], one of the oldest of the extant Romanian Boyar families.^[2] He 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 U