Benjo Zonew
Benjo Zonew ( Bulgarian Беньо Цонев , born January 12, 1863 in Lovech ; died October 5, 1926 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian linguist .
Life
Zonew grew up in very poor conditions. His older brother, Christo, taught him to read and write at an early age. At the age of 12 he worked as a town clerk in his hometown Lovetsch. After graduating from school in 1884, a scholarship enabled him to attend the classical grammar school in Zagreb . After graduation, he worked for two years as a grammar school teacher before continuing his studies at the universities of Vienna and Leipzig in 1886 with a scholarship , which he completed with a doctorate in Leipzig in 1890 . Back in Bulgaria he found a job at a boys' grammar school in Sofia in 1890 and as a lecturer at the State University in Sofia, which appointed him in 1893 first as a lecturer and in 1895 as a full professor. He was a corresponding and, from 1898, an active member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, the later Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where from 1915 to 1921 he was the chairman of the historical-philological department. As titular of the Chair of the History of the Bulgarian Language from 1893 to 1926, Benjo Zonew was one of the founding members of the University of St. Kliment Ochrid in Sofia. He was dean of the Faculty of History from 1897 to 1917 and rector of the university from 1910 to 1911. In addition to his preoccupation with the Old Bulgarian and Old Slavic languages, he also dealt with contemporary Bulgarian. Benjo Zonew is considered to be the pioneer of modern Bulgarian spelling. The public library in Lovech "Professor Benjo Zonew" "" and a street in the capital Sofia are named after him. On May 11, 2018, Professor Benjo Zonew was posthumously granted honorary citizenship of the city of Lovech.
Benjo Zonew's major work The History of the Bulgarian Language appeared in Bulgaria Volume I in 1919 and edited posthumously by his student Stefan Mladenow , Volume II in 1934 and Volume III in 1937. They have not been translated.
literature
- Regional library "Prof. Benio Conev": Prof. Benio Conev (12.I.1863–5.X.1929) Bibliography. The full bibliography of his works in Bulgarian.
- Stojan Jerev: Benio Conev. Sofia 1989 (Bulgarian)
- Conev, Ben'o Stefanov p. 317 in Lexicon Grammaticorum, 2. Edition, publisher Harro Stammerjohann, Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stojan Jerev: Benio Conev. Sofia 1989
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zonew, Benjo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Цонев, Беньо (Bulgarian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lovech , Bulgaria |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 5, 1926 |
| Place of death | Sofia , Bulgaria |