Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan
Bulgarian linguist and historian
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- PhD Linguistics Leipzig University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aleksandar Stoyanov Teodorov-Balan was a Bulgarian linguist, historian and bibliographer. Balan was born in the village of Kubey in the Russian Empire, today in Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, to a Bessarabian Bulgarian family. The Bulgarian general Georgi Todorov was his brother. Balan studied in Prague and Leipzig graduating in Slavistics from the Charles University in Prague. In 1884 he settled in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria, spending four years working for the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment. He became professor of Slavic ethnography and dialectology and history of the Bulgarian language, since 1893 head of the Bulgarian and Slavic literature department of the High Pedagogical School . On 29 January 1889, he was elected the first rector of the university and reelected several times ; he was also dean of the Faculty of History and Philosophy .
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