Kiril Bratanov

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Kiril Bratanov

Kiril Zotschew Bratanow ( Bulgarian Кирил Братанов ; born March 5, 1911 in Lukowit , † October 16, 1986 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian zoologist .

Life

After completing his studies in veterinary medicine in Sofia in 1935, he continued his training in Bucharest in 1938 , in Milan in 1941 and in Moscow in 1946 . In 1947 he joined the Bulgarian Communist Party . In 1954 he became a professor. Bratanow had been the director of the Unified Center for Biology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1976 , of which he had been a member since 1967. He also belonged to several foreign academies.

In his scientific work, he dealt in particular with the reproduction of farm animals. He wrote a large number of scientific monographs, textbooks and handbooks, more than 300 scientific papers, and among other things more than 500 articles on the development of agriculture in Bulgaria.

literature

  • Bratanov, Kiril Zochev. In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1983, p. 35.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Margarita Mollowa: Акад. Кирил Братанов - патрон на Института по биология и имунология на размножаването - Биългарска академ. Institut po biologiya i imunologiya na razmnozhavaneto Akad. Kiril Bratanov (Bulgarian).
  2. Nikolai Poppetrov: История на Съюза на учените в България. SUB, Sofia 2004, p. 152.