Gantscho Zenow

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Gantscho Zenow , outdated Tzenoff ( Bulgarian Ганчо Ценов ; born June 19, 1870 in Bojniza , Vidin region , Bulgaria ; † September 25, 1949 in Berlin ) was a Bulgarian historian .

Live and act

First he studied history at the University of Sofia and worked for two years as a history teacher at the boys' school in Vidin . Then he went into the service of the Defense Ministry, which delegated him to Germany in 1899 to specialize. He received his doctorate from the University of Berlin in 1900 . He stayed there for many years as a lecturer and lecturer. In particular, he dealt with the history of the Bulgarian people in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. With the financial support of his German wife, he undertook extensive archival studies that led him to the Vatican library . He developed the hypothesis of the autochthonous origin of the Bulgarian population on the Balkan Peninsula, which he first represented in 1910 in his main work The Origin of the Bulgarians and the Beginning of the Bulgarian State and the Bulgarian Church . With this view, however, he contradicted the official Bulgarian historiography , which is why his two-time candidacy for a professorship at the University of Sofia was rejected because of "pathological anomalies". He published his books mainly in Bulgaria, but some also appeared in Germany. With the communist upheaval in Bulgaria in 1944, his publications were banned there because of the embodiment of Bulgarian ultra-nationalism. However, they were reprinted later. Zenow died in Berlin in 1949 and found his final resting place in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Fonts

  • Who set Moscow on fire? (= Historical studies volume 17), Berlin 1900 (diss.); ND Vaduz 1965
  • Praotečestvoto i praezikǔt na bǔlgaritĕ: istoriko-filologičeski izdirvanija vŭz osnova na pǔrvoiztočnici , Sofija 1907
  • Proizchodŭt na Bǔlgaritě i načalo na bŭlgarskata dǔržova i bǔlgarskata crǔkva , Sofija 1910; ND Varna 2005
  • Rusija i zavoeva telnitĕ stremezi na surbitĕ: istoriko-političesko izdirvane , Sofija 1915; ND Velko Tarnovo 2004
  • Goths or Bulgarians: source-critical investigation into the history of the ancient Scythians, Thracians and Macedonians , Leipzig 1915
  • History of the Bulgarians , Berlin 1917
  • Scientific life in Bulgaria . In: Minerva. News for the learned world (Berlin), 1/1924, no. 1, pp. 13-15.
  • The ancestry of the Bulgarians and the original home of the Slavs: a historical-philological study of the history of the ancient Thrakoillyrians, Scythians, Goths, Huns, Celts and others , Leipzig 1930
  • Az oláhok eredetük szerint hun-bolgárok: Latinŭl és elsö iz en magyar forditásban (= Veszta Könyvtár 17), Budapest 1931 (co-author)
  • History of the Bulgarians and the other southern Slavs from the Roman conquest of the Balkan Peninsula to the end of the ninth century , Leipzig 1935
  • Krovatova Bǔlgarija i prokrustvaneto na Bǔlgaritĕ , Sofija 1937; ND Plovdiv 1998; Sofija 2004
  • Chunitĕ, koito osnovacha bǔlgarskata dǔržova: technijat proizchod i technoto christjanstvo , Sofija 1940; ND Sofija 2002

literature

  • Jordan Tabov / Kliment Vasilev: Vŭz krŭsvatata istorija na Dr Gancho Tsenov , Sofija 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Zenow, Gantscho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tzenoff, Gantscho; Tsenov, Gancho
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Boynitsa , Vidin Region , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1949
Place of death Berlin