Krastjo Miyatev

Krastjo Iwanow Mijatew (common transliteration Krăstju Mijatev , Bulgarian Кръстю Миятев , born January 19, 1892 in Plovdiv ; † August 24, 1966 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian archaeologist and art historian .

Life

Miyatew attended high school in Plovdiv and then studied from 1909 to 1910 at the University of Sofia , then from 1910 to 1915 at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1915 with a thesis on the emphasis on the Bulgarian language. In 1915 he returned to Bulgaria and worked as a teacher in Kazanlak and Sofia. From 1925 he was a research assistant at the Department of Medieval History of the Ethnographic Museum in Sofia. From 1923 to 1925 he completed a postgraduate course in Christian archeology and Byzantine art history at the University of Berlin .

Miyatew was from the end of 1926 initially as a private lecturer, from 1946 to 1956 as a professor of Christian archeology at the theological faculty of the University of Sofia. In 1939 he became director of the Ethnographic Museum. From 1948 to 1963 he was director of the National Archaeological Institute and Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , of which he had been a member since 1926.

He led numerous excavations, for example at Madara , Preslaw , Pliska and on the Tsarevez in Tarnowo . In his scientific work he dealt with the material culture as well as the painting and architecture of the Bulgarian Middle Ages .

Fonts (selection)

• Decorative nata živopis' na sofijskija nekropol / La peinture décorative de la nécropole de Serdica . Pridvorna Pečatnica, Sofia 1925.
• Preslavskata keramika / Preslav's ceramics . Hiersemann, Leipzig 1936.
• with Christo Christov, Georgi Stojkov: The Rila Monastery. The story, the structure, wall painting and wood carving . Bulgarian Academy of Sciences publishing house, Sofia 1957.
• The wall paintings in Boyana . VEB Verlag der Kunst, Dresden 1961.
• Medieval architecture in Bulgaria . Publishing house of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia 1974.

literature

• Emil Ivanov : Krăstju Mijatev . In: Stefan Heid, Martin Dennert (Hrsg.): Personal Lexicon for Christian Archeology. Researchers and personalities from the 16th to the 21st century . Volume 2: K - Z. Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2620-0 , pp. 912-913.