Christo M. Danov

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Christo M. Danov (full name Christo Milošev Danov , different spelling: Danoff , born July 2, 1908 in Plovdiv , † January 28, 1999 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian ancient historian .

Life

Christo Danov, the son of the publisher Milos Danov, attended the humanistic grammar school in Plovdiv and Varna and studied classical studies from 1927 to 1932 at the University of Vienna . His teachers included the classical philologists Hans von Arnim , Edmund Hauler , Alfred Kappelmacher and Ludwig Radermacher , the linguist Paul Kretschmer , the archaeologist Emil Reisch and the ancient historians Rudolf Egger and Adolf Wilhelm . In 1932, he was with a dissertation on the Greek inscriptions from Tomis and Callatis Dr. phil. PhD . He then deepened his studies in Italy (Florence, Rome and Naples) in 1932 and in France (at the Sorbonne in Paris) in 1933 .

After his military service (1933/34) Danov initially worked as an assistant at the National Archaeological Museum in Sofia . During the Second World War he worked in the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry from autumn 1944, and from spring to summer 1945 as a liaison officer and translator in Vienna .

In addition to his work in the museum, Danov was a lecturer at the University of Sofia from 1941 , where he was appointed associate professor in 1942 and full professor of ancient and medieval history in 1944. At the same time he taught at the University of Skopje from 1943 to 1944 . Later visiting professorships took him to the Sorbonne and the universities in Oxford , Vienna and Rome .

Danov's research on the archeology and history of the Balkan countries received international recognition. He was a full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and organized the first international Thracological Conference in Sofia (May 1972) and the third in Vienna (1980). In 1975 he received the Herder Prize , in 1977 the Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, first class. From 1979 to 1981 he headed the Bulgarian Research Institute in Austria .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Greek inscriptions from Tomis and Kallatis . Vienna 1932 (dissertation)
  • Pontus Euxeinos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Supplementary Volume IX, Stuttgart 1962, Col. 867-1920.
  • Древна Тракия . Sofia 1968
    • German translation by Gerda Minkova: Alttrakien . Berlin / New York 1976
  • The Thracians in the Eastern Balkans. In: Rise and Fall of the Roman World . Vol. II, 7.1, de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1979, ISBN 3-11-006875-3 , pp. 23-182
  • with Teofil Ivanov: Ancient tombs in Bulgaria . Sofia 1980

literature

  • Thracia. Studia in honorem Christo M. Danov univ. Prof. d. dr. collegae et discipuli dedicaverunt . Sofia 1998
  • Renate Pillinger : Christo M. Danov . In: Almanac of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . Vol. 149 (1999), pp. 523-529

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Doctoral act, archive of the University of Vienna, PH RA 11154
personal data
SURNAME Danov, Christo M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danov, Christo Milošev; Danoff, Christo Miloscheff; Danow, Hristo Miloschew; Данов, Христо Милушев
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Plovdiv
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1999
Place of death Sofia