Ovidiu Pecican

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ovidiu Pecican
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jan 8, 1959(1959-01-08)
Age	65
Country	Romania
Birth City	Arad
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ovidiu Pecican Biography

Ovidiu Pecican is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on January 8, 1959 in Arad, Romania. Ovidiu Coriolan Pecican (born on January 8th 1959) is a Romanian historian writer, essayist, novelist short-story writer poetry, literary critic as well as playwright and journalist of Serbian origin. He is most well-known for his political writings about controversial issues like the regional autonomy of Transylvania and also for co-authoring an unpopular history textbook for the 11th and 12th grades of high school students.

The year 1994 was the first time Pecican released a collection of conversations of writer Nicolae Breban (O utopia tangibila, “A Tangible Utopia”; Editura Didactica si Pedagogica). The year 1995 was the time he wrote, along alongside Horatiu Mihaiu, the groundbreaking theatre show 17 acte cu Piet Mondrian (“17 Acts with Piet Mondrian”) that was staged at the National Theater in Cluj-Napoca, before it was showcased during the Belgrade Summer Festival and winning numerous Romanian prizes. In 1997, his books featuring him were released each year or in multiple volumes every year.

Later in the same year, Ovidiu Pecican and his cousin, Alexandru Pecican, completed work on a second novel, Razzar, a mythical and archetypal metaphor of the human destiny elaborated within the literary conventions of the science fiction genre. Razzar received the Nemira Publishing House Prize for novels in 1998.

Troia, Veneția, Roma (1998) deals with the imagined homelands of the Vlachs as they result from old written fragments conserved in later contexts, laying out some of the main characteristics of Romanian identity at the time of its first making. The cultural origins of the Romanians’ negative self-image, both inherited and developed, is the topic of Pecican’s Lumea lui Simion Dascălul (1998), where he attempts to define the cultural elites of Early Modern Moldavia (17th century) and to determine the reasons why Simion Dascălul, one of the leading Romanian chroniclers of the time, is misunderstood. Pecican’s Arpadieni, Angevini, români (2001) focuses on the Romanian-origin lesser nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary under the Árpáds and the Angevins until the end of the 14th century; the volume contradicts both Romanian and Hungarian historiographic tradition, which have traditionally claimed that Romanians were only serfs under Hungarian rule or that Romanians were brought from the Balkans and into Transylvania only to guard the Hungarian border. The volume raised debates between the author and historian Ioan-Aurel Pop, who claimed that Pecican’s views favored the Hungarians. Realități imaginate și ficțiuni adevărate în evul mediu românesc (2002) and Trecutul istoric si omul evului mediu (2002) center on newly discovered medieval historical writings from Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia. They include annals from the times of Wallachian Prince Vlad III the Impaler, as well as from previous and subsequent periods, which, Pecican indicates, show the vitality of a culture in its development and the dialog with the neighboring cultures.

The first novel of Pecican’s, Eu si maimuta mea composed in 1994, tells the story of the love story in a psychiatric institution during the time of Nicolae Ceausescu’s regime. The modular structure of the story aids in creating a poetic atmosphere that is the reason for the stark contrast between the pure love story, on the one side, and the darker setting that it is set in, on the other.

Ovidiu Pecican Net Worth

Ovidiu Pecican is one of the richest Historian from Romania. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ovidiu Pecican 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Between 1985 between 1985 and in 1990 Pecican employed as a secondary school history professor from 1985 to 1990 in Lipova, Arad County; from 1991 to 1994, he was an researcher at the University of Birmingham’s Center for Transylvanian Studies (Centrul of Transilvane Studies) and then an instructor in UBB in UBB (1994). Awarded an BA in History and Philosophy (1985) as well as an PhD in Medieval History (1998), both from the UBB and the UBB, he was a specialist in the cultural and social historical background in Central as well as Southeastern Europe.

The birthplace of Pecican was Arad, Pecican graduated from the Cluj-Napoca University (currently called UBB, the Babes-Bolyai University, UBB) in the year 1985. Pecican published the first story he wrote in the year 1978. In the latter part of the 1970s, He was involved in the underground film-making scene in his hometown, as part of the Atelier 16 Club, along with Gheorghe Sbau, Mircea Mihaies Ioan T. Morar, Valentin Constantin, Alexandru Pecican, among other writers. While a student, from 1981 to 1985, he became an employee for the magazines Napoca Universitara and Echinox. Infrequently published in literary magazines His prose was the first to be published in one volume in the year the year 1990 (Eu si maimuta mea “Me and My Monkey” which was released in 1990 by Editura Dacia).

Pecican is co-editor of Caietele Tranziției and a contributor to major newspapers, including Contemporanul, Cotidianul, and Ziarul Financiar. He has also written works of science fiction, mainstream literature and cultural history studies. Since 1994, he has been a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union.

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Eventually, the original version failed to win Ministry approval. In later editions, the Sigma textbook was published with significant changes in content. In 2002, the PSD Minister Ecaterina Andronescu removed it from the list of endorsed textbooks, which caused Pecican to issue a formal protest, supported by, among others, the historian and West University professor Victor Neumann. Both Pecican and Neumann expressed concerns that this was signaling a return to official history, and made mention of inconsistencies in educational policies.

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Ovidiu Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Romania. Ovidiu Pecican celebrates birthday on January 8 of every year.

The debate on regionalism prompted Ovidiu Pecican to write a new book on the regional political forms before and after the founding of the Danubian Principalities, under the title of Originile istorice ale regionalismului românesc (2003). The historian argues against the essentialist image of the nation-state, and points to a rich originality of political forms, autonomy experiments on the lower Danube and in the Carpathians, foreign influences and original answers.