Aleksandar Balabanov
Aleksandar Michajlow Balabanow ( Bulgarian Александър Михайлов Балабанов ; born January 18, 1879 in Štip , today Macedonia ; † November 30, 1955 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) was a well-known Bulgarian literary and linguist ( classical philologist ), translator and literary critic.
Aleksandar Balabanow was born in the east Macedonian city of Štip in 1879 . Like many other Macedonian Bulgarians , his family moved to Bulgaria , liberated from the Ottoman Empire . He studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig and the University of Erlangen , where he received his doctorate in 1904. Between 1904 and 1912 he worked as a teacher for classical languages at the “First Boys' Gymnasium” in Sofia. In 1921 he founded the Institute for Classical Philology at Sofia University and was its first director.
Balabanow was a co-founder and member of the Macedonian Scientific Institute , as well as a long-time lecturer at the St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia . He was also a member of the BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee / Български Македоно-Одрински революционни комитети ).
In addition to his scientific work, he was also an editor for various magazines and newspapers: magazines "Chudozhnik" ( Bulgar . Художник = painter) from 1905 to 1906 and "Prometej" ( Bulgar . Прометей = Prometheus) between 1937 and 1943, the newspapers "Wreme" ( Bulgar . Време = time) from 1908 to 1909 and "Razwigor" ( Bulgar . Развигор ) between 1921 and 1937.
bibliography
Aleksandar Balabanov is the author of hundreds of articles and articles in Bulgarian and foreign magazines and newspapers. He also wrote the following books:
- The evolution of motifs in Greek poetry (Bulgarian Еволюция на мотивите в гръцката поезия. ) 1911.
- The history of classical literature (from the Bulgarian История на класичната литература. ) 1914.
- Love and Poetry (Bulgarian Любов и поезия. ) 1939.
Individual evidence
- ^ Member-founder of the Macedonian Scientific Institute (Bulgarian) ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
literature
- Klaus Ley: Flaubert's Salammbô in Music, Painting, Literature and Film: Articles and Texts. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5185-0 , p. 168.
- Nikolina Burneva: Balabanov, Aleksandar. In: Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950 . Volume 1: A-G. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , pp. 78–80 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Literature by Aleksandar Balabanow in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Balabanov, Aleksandar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balabanow, Aleksandar Michajlow; Balabanov, Aleksandar; Balabanov, Alexandar; Balabanov, Alexander; Балабанов, Александър Михайлов (Bulgarian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian literary and linguist, translator and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Štip , Bulgaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 30, 1955 |
| Place of death | Sofia , Bulgaria |