Lyubomir Miletich

Scientist, Deceased Person

1863 – 1937

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Who was Lyubomir Miletich?

Lyubomir Miletich was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death.

Lyubomir Miletich was born in Štip, today in the Republic of Macedonia, to a Bulgarian family originally from Edirne in modern Eastern Thrace, Turkey. His great-grandfather voivode Mile had left Edirne and settled in the Austrian Banat in the early 19th century, where his grandfather Simo was born. Simo had two sons, Svetozar and Georgi, Lyubomir's father, who, after briefly living in Bosnia and North Africa, returned to his homeland to become a teacher in Macedonia and northwestern Bulgaria in 1859. Miletich's mother, Evka Popdaova, was born in Veles, Macedonia.

Miletich studied in Sofia and Novi Sad, but finished school in the Zagreb Secondary School for Classical Education in 1882 and graduated in Slavistics from the University of Zagreb and Charles University in Prague, where he was taught by Jan Gebauer. Miletich participated in the foundation of Sofia University in 1888. He became a Ph.D. of philology and Slavic philology of the University of Zagreb in July 1889. Miletich become the dean of the Faculty of History and Philology of University of Sofia during the 1903-04 academic year. During the 1900-01 and 1921–22, he was the rector of the University.

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Born
Jan 14, 1863
Štip
Nationality
  • Bulgaria
Profession
Died
Jun 1, 1937
Sofia

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on July 23, 2013

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