He attended the King Ferdinand High School in Turda, where his father, Teodor Murășanu, was a teacher.
In the summer of 1948, Camil Mureșanu was arrested for political reasons by the communist authorities, without penal sanctions.
He obtained his Ph.D. in history in 1971 with the thesis: Times of John Hunyadi (doctoral adviser Ṣtefan Pascu).
He was a participant at the International Congress of Historical Sciences (Vienna – 1965, Moscow – 1970, Bucharest – 1980, Oslo – 2000).
His grandfather was a priest and his father, Teodor Murășanu, was a Romanian language teacher.