Napoleon Săvescu
Napoleon Săvescu (born June 24, 1946) is a Romanian-American physician known for being the supporter of some controversial theories regarding the origins and history of Dacians and Romanians. He is also the founder of the New York City-based "Dacia Revival International Society", which since 2000 is the organizer of the annually-held International Congress of Dacology.
Theories
His most famous theory says that the Romanians are not descendants of the Roman colonists and assimilated Dacians, as mainstream historians say, but that they are the descendants of only the Dacians, who spoke a language close to Latin.
Other controversial theories of his include the Dacians (or their ancestors) developing of the first alphabet in the world (see the Tărtăria tablets), the first set of laws or the Dacian conquest of Western Europe, India, Iraq, Japan and the Americas.
His theories are, however, disregarded by historical journals and most historians, e.g. Mircea Babeş, Lucian Boia and Alexandra Tomiţă,[1] who label these theories as pseudoscience and protochronistic and consider that there is not enough scientific evidence to support them.[2]
Bibliography
- Noi nu suntem urmaşii Romei, Editura Intact, 2002, ISBN 973-98873-7-6
See also
Notes
- ↑ Irina-Maria Manea, Dacomania sau cum mai falsificãm istoria
- ↑ Andrei Corbea, Herodot si „Todoreh”, Observator cultural, nr. 168, mai 2003.
References
- Evenimentul Zilei "Ca şi cînd precedentele reuniuni n-ar fi fost de ajuns, dacologii bat cîmpii in centrul Capitalei" (in Romanian) 22 June 2002, and "Vine si partidul Dacii Liberi" (column by Cornel Nistorescu), 16 August 2001
- Observatorul Cultural "Burebista, contemporanul nostru" August 2001, and "Renaşterea Daciei?" August 2001 - to be searched in the archive of publication
External links
- Savescu's site -- "True history of the Dacian nation".