Editie in limba engleza Ioan Aurel Pop is professor and Rector of Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the author and co-author of over fifty books, treatises and textbooks and of over three hundred articles and studies, Doctor Honoris Causa of universities in Alba Iulia, Timisoara, Oradea, Cahul, Galati, Sibiu, Targu Mures, the State University of Chisinau, "Ion Creanga" Pedagogical University of Chisinau. He is President of the Romanian Academy, member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in Salzburg, of the National Virgilian Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts in Mantua (Italy) and of the European Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Paris. He has been Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York (USA) and the Romanian Institute for Culture and Humanistic Research in Venice (Italy) and he is Director of the Centre for Transylvanian Studies of the Romanian Academy.