Stefan Mladenov
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Born | Stefan Mladenov Stoyanov 15 December 1880 Vidin, Bulgaria |
Died | 1 May 1963 Sofia, Bulgaria | (aged 82)
Resting place | Central Sofia Cemetery 42°42′50.0″N 23°20′00.5″E / 42.713889°N 23.333472°E |
Nationality | Bulgarian |
Other names | Стефан Младенов Стоянов |
Occupation | linguist |
Known for | Bulgarian studies |
Notable work | Introduction to General Linguistics |
Stefan Mladenov (15 December 1880 – 1 May 1963) was a Bulgarian linguist and dialectologist, a specialist in Indo-European linguistics, Slavic studies, Balkan studies, Bulgarian studies and a scientist of world renown and authority.
He was fluent in 18 languages and used 27. He was the first translator of Henrik Ibsen into Bulgarian. Corresponding Member of a number of Academies of Sciences, including the Russian Academy of Sciences (the only Bulgarian scientist during the Soviet period until the end of World War II); The German Academy of Sciences; Polish Academy of Sciences and more, including King's College London.
Stefan Mladenov has over 1100 scientific publications. More than 140 reviews and reviews from around the world have been published for his work. In the 20th century and in the run up to the discovery of the Internet, it was one of the largest facilities in comparative linguistics and historical linguistics in the world.
He led the Bulgarian delegation to the First Linguistic Congress in Prague in 1935. In 1929, his "History of the Bulgarian language" was published in German under the review of Max Vasmer. Previously edited the special part in the second and third volume of the first three-volume story in Bulgarian by Benyo Tsonev. His writings are fundamental to historical comparativism, because Old Bulgarian is the fourth classical and medieval literary language (see trilingual heresy).
Stefan Mladenov made a special contribution to clarifying the historical influence of the Bulgarian language and to the emergence of languages from the Balkan Linguistic Union. According to Mladenov, the South Slavic speeches within this union are Bulgarian.[1]
Sources
- ^ http://www.libsu.uni-sofia.bg/slavica/Mladenov.html Bibliotheca Slavica; Stefan Mladenov (15.12.1880-01.05.1963)
- 1880 births
- 1963 deaths
- Linguists from Bulgaria
- Linguists of Indo-European languages
- Dialectologists
- Slavists
- Charles University alumni
- Sofia University alumni
- Sofia University faculty
- Members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute
- Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- People associated with King's College London
- Foreign Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
- Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 20th-century linguists