Ivan Yonchev Snegarov (Bulgarian: Иван Йончев Снегаров; October 12, 1883, Ohrid, Ottoman Empire — March 1, 1971, Sofia) was a Bulgarian historian and archivist.[1]
Biography
Snegrov was born on October 12, 1883, in the city of Ohrid, then in the Ottoman Empire, today in North Macedonia. He studied in Ohrid, and later at the Constantinople Theological Seminary (1900 - 1906). Then he was a clerk in the Bulgarian Exarchate in Constantinople (1906 - 1907). In 1908-1912 he studied at the Kiev Theological Academy. In 1913-1926 he was a Bulgarian teacher at the Constantinople Seminary and in the Sofia Seminary. Snegarov became a full-time associate professor at the Faculty of Theology at the Sofia University (1926), full professor (1933), corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1933), academician (1943). He headed the Department of History at the Sofia Seminary (1950), where he continued to work as a part-time professor from 1951 to 1956. He was the director of the Institute of Bulgarian History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from its founding in 1947 to 1950, director of the Archival Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1951-1959).[2] Snegarov was a founding member of the Macedonian Scientific Institute.[3]
He died in Sofia in 1971.
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Notes
- ↑ Соня Зафирова за Иван Снегаров в: Лиляна Грашева (с колектив), Кирило-Методиевска енциклопедия, изд. на БАН, Институт за литература; акад. издателство "Марин Дринов", т. III, София 2003, ISBN 954-430-943-8, с. 687 – 691. (Sonya Zafirova on Ivan Snegarov in: Lilyana Grasheva et al., Cyril and Methodius Encyclopedia, ed. of BAS, Institute of Literature; Academic Publishing House "Marin Drinov", vol. III, Sofia 2003, pp. 687 - 691).
- ↑ Димитър Ангелов, Йордан Николов — Научното дело на академик Иван Снегаров. Известия на Института за история при БАН, Том 20, 1968 г. София, стр. 5-11. (Dimitar Angelov, Yordan Nikolov - The scientific work of academician Ivan Snegarov. Proceedings of the Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 20, 1968. Sofia, pp. 5-11.).
- ↑ Димитър Христов, Иван Снегаров – жизнен път и историописно творчество. Автореферат на дисертация за присъждане на образователната и научна степен „доктор“, Софийски университет "Св. Климент Охридски", 2009, 32 стр. (Dimitar Hristov, Ivan Snegarov - life path and historiographical work. Abstract of a dissertation for awarding the educational and scientific degree "Doctor", Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", 2009, 32 p.)