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Radu Florescu
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 United Kingdo