Ljubomir Miletich

Ljubomir Miletich

Ljubomir Georgiev Miletitsch ( Bulgarian Любомир Георгиев Милетич ; born January 1, 1863 in Štip, today in Macedonia ; † June 1, 1937 in Sofia , Bulgaria ) was a Bulgarian linguist , ethnographer , dialectologist , historian and publicist . He was chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences , as well as co-founder and chairman of the Macedonian Scientific Institute in Sofia.

Life

Ljubomir Miletitsch was born in Štip in 1863 . His father Georgi Miletitsch (from Moskhorin, today Hungary) was the brother of the Pan-Slavist and activist of the Serbian national movement in Vojwodina Svetozar Miletić . Georgi Miletitsch worked in the middle of the 19th century as a Bulgarian teacher in various Macedonian cities, such as Veles (1858–1861), where he married the mother of Lyubomir Miletitsch, Ewka Hadschi Popdaowa and Štip (1861–1863). There are various theories about the origin of the Miletitsch family. Some of them seek their origin in Croatia, others in Bulgaria and Bosnia. According to Serbian authors, Georgi and Svetozar Miletitsch were grandchildren of Miletitsch Miletic from Kaca in southern Batschka . Bulgarian sources mention Ljubomir Miletitsch Mile Wojwoda from Thrace as the great-grandfather . Ljubomir Miletitsch himself grew up believing that Mile Wojwoda was his great-grandfather and took a trip to Adrianople in 1913 to find the village of Kiretsch and learn more about his ancestors. In the mid-1970s Georgi Miletic and his family moved to Sofia . Ljubomir Miletitsch attended elementary and middle school there. 1876–1878 Georgi Miletic took part in the Serbian-Ottoman War and the Russian-Ottoman War . He sent his son to Novi Sad and Zagreb .

In 1882 Ljubomir finished the Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb . With a grant from the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, he studied Slavic Philology in Zagreb and Prague . In 1885 he returned to Sofia and taught at the “1. Sofia High School ”. From 1892 he taught philology at the Sofia University (later Sofia University ). Since 1898 he was a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society (since 1911 Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

He defended his doctorate in Philology and Slavic Philology at the University of Zagreb in July 1889 with the work О članu u bugarskom jeziku (Bulgarian Членът в българския език / The article in the Bulgarian language ). Between 1903 and 1904 he was dean of the Faculty of History and Philology at Sofia University; from 1900 to 1901 and from 1921 to 1933 he was rector of the university.

From 1926 until his death he was chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . In 1901 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg . Miletitsch was one of the founders of the Macedonian Science Institute in 1923 and its chairman from 1928 until his death.

Miletich Point , a headland on Greenwich Island in Antarctica, has been named in his honor since 2009 .

Fonts

Ljubomir Miletitsch leaves behind more than 400 works: books, monographs, reviews, studies, etc., most of them in German, French, Serbo-Croatian and Russian. He is an author and one of the first scholars to deal with Bulgarian grammar, dialects , dialects and Thracian topics. Some of his most important works here are "For Thrace" (bulg. За Тракия ), "Native Thrace" (bulg. Родна Тракия ), "Western Thrace and the Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine " (bulg. Западна Трмакия а Ньой ), "The History of the Gyumjurdschina Republic " (Bulgarian История на Гюмюрджинската република ). Some more of his works include:

• "Нови влахо-български грамоти от Брашов", 1896
• "The Dako-Romans and their Slavic alphabet" (from the Bulgarian Дако-ромъните и тяхната славянска писменост. Часть II. Нови влахаро-вмгарско Бъро български). In: Сборник за Народни Умотворения, Наука и Книжнина, Volume XIII, Sofia, 1896
• “The Eastern Bulgarian”, Vienna, 1903
• “Коприщенски дамаскин. Новобългарски паметник от XVII век “, Бълг. старини, кн. II, София, 1908
• “The Rhodope Mouth Types of the Bulgarian Language”, Vienna, 1911
• "Documents sur les atrocités grecques. extraits du livre de L. Milétitch "Atrocités grecques en Macédonie" “, Sofia 1913,
• "The annihilation of the Thracian Bulgarians in 1913" (Bulgarian Разорението на тракийскитеѣ българи презъ 1913 година ), Sofia 1918,
• " Old Bulgarian grammar compared with the New Bulgarian language", based on the "Handbuch der Altbulgarischen (Old Church Slavonic) language", written by August Leskien , Heidelberg, 1922, but expanded by Miletitsch with comparative materials on New Bulgarian and its dialects.
• “Свищовски дамаскин. Новобългарски паметник от XVIII век “, Бълг. старини, кн. VII, София, 1923
• "Седмоградските българи и техният език", 1926
• Движението отсам Вардара и борбата с върховистите по спомени на Яне Сандански, ЧерньМ Пеев, Савал. Куслев, Ив. Анастасов Гърчето, Петър Хр. Юруков и Никола Пушкаров; съобщава Л. Милетич , София, Печатница П. Глушков, 1927, поредица "Материяли за историята на македонското освободително движениук", Издавет ", VII.
• "I. In Macedonia and Eastern Thrace. Memories of Michail Gerdschikow , II. The First Central Committee of IMRO, Memories of Christo Tatarschew "in" Materials for the History of the Macedonian Struggle for Freedom "(Bulgarian Материяли за историята на македонското 19 .итведонското осведонското 19
• "Единството на българския език в неговите наречия", 1929
• "Към историята на българското аналитично склонение", 1935

literature

• Wladko Muradov: Lyubomir Miletic. Sofia 1987

Web links

• Literature by and about Ljubomir G. Miletič in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and list of works (Bulgarian) on the website of the Sofia University library
• Short biography on the website of the Macedonian Scientific Institute Sofia

Individual evidence

1. ^ Member-founder of the Macedonian Scientific Institute (Bulgarian) ( Memento from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ B. Markev: Miletic, Ljubomir , in: Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia , Zagreb, 1965
3. ↑ ^{a b} Кънчов, Васил. Сегашното и недавното минало на град Велес
4. ↑ ^{a b} Мулутиновић К., Светозар Милетић , "Нове Европе", Загреб, 1939, pp. 5–6
5. ↑ Петровић Н., Светозар Милетић , Белград, 1958, pp. 7–9
6. ↑ Дамянов С., Любомир Милетич и неговите проучвания за българите в Седмиградско и Банат в Милетич Л., Изследвания за българите в Седмиградско и Банат , Издатество "Наука и изкуство" София 1987
7. ↑ Simeon Damjanow: Ljubomir Miletic and his studies of the Bulgarians in Transylvania and Banat , in Ljubomir Miletic studies of the Bulgarians in Transylvania and Banat (from the bulg Любомир Милетич и неговите проучвания за българите в Седмиградско и Банат , в. Милетич, Любомир , Изследвания за българите в Седмиградско и Банат), Sofia, 1987, p. 7
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Ст. Романски, Любомир Милетичъ , Държавна печатница, София, 1940, pp. 82–83, 85–86
9. ^ Wladko Muradow: Ljubomir Miletic, Sofia, 1987, p. 121
10. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Ljubomir Miletic. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 6, 2015 (Russian). 

predecessor	Office	successor
Ivan Geschow	Chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1926–1937	Bogdan Filov

predecessor	Office	successor
Ivan Georgov	Chairman of the Macedonian Scientific Institute 1928–1937	Nikola Stoyanov