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Lyubomir Miletich | |
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| Born | (1863-01-14)14 January 1863 Štip, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 1 June 1937(1937-06-01) (aged 74) Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria |
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| Alma mater | University of Zagreb Charles University in Prague |
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| Discipline | linguistics ethnography philology |
| Institutions | University of Sofia |
Lyubomir Miletich (Bulgarian:Любомир Милетич; 14 January 1863 – 1 June 1937) was a Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of theBulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death.
Lyubomir Miletich was born inŠtip, today inNorth Macedonia, to a Bulgarian family originally fromEdirne (Odrin) in modernEastern Thrace,Turkey. His great-grandfathervoivode Mile had left Edirne and settled in theAustrianBanat in the early 19th century, where Lyubomir's grandfather Simo was born. Simo had two sons,Svetozar andĐorđe, Lyubomir's father, who, after briefly living inBosnia andNorth Africa, returned to his homeland to become a teacher inMacedonia and northwestern Bulgaria in 1859.[1] Miletich's mother, Evka Popdaova, was born inVeles, Macedonia.[2]
Miletich studied inSofia andNovi Sad, but finished school in theZagreb Secondary School for Classical Education in 1882 and graduated inSlavistics from theUniversity of Zagreb andCharles University in Prague, where he was taught byJan Gebauer. Miletich participated in the foundation ofSofia University in 1888. He became aPh.D. of philology and Slavic philology of the University of Zagreb in July 1889. Miletich become thedean of the Faculty of History and Philology ofUniversity of Sofia during the 1903–04 academic year. During the 1900–01 and 1921–22, he was therector of the University.
Since 1898, Miletich was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which he presided from 1926 until his death. Similarly, he was the chairman of the BulgarianMacedonian Scientific Institute from 1927 to his death.
Miletich was a doctorhonoris causa of theKharkiv University, a corresponding member of theRussian Academy of Sciences, as well of theRussian Historical Society, thePolish Academy of Learning, theSouth Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts, theCzech Academy of Sciences, the Czech Scientific Society and the Czech Ethnographic Society, the Hungarian Ethnographic Society and the Russian Archaeological Institute.
Miletich died in Sofia on 1 June 1937.
Miletich Point onGreenwich Island in theSouth Shetland Islands, Antarctica, is named after Lyubomir Miletich.[3]
| Preceded by | Chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1926–1937 | Succeeded by |
