Vazov spas

Vazov spas

Spas Wazow Kirov (also written Spas Vacov Kirov , Bulgarian Спас Вацов Киров ; * May 18, 1856 in Pirot , then Ottoman Empire , now in Serbia ; †  February 2, 1928 in Sofia , Bulgaria ), better known as Spas Wazow , was a Bulgarian Climatologist and founder of Bulgarian meteorology .

Life

Spas Wazow was born in 1856 in the city of Pirot, which was then still part of the Ottoman Empire (now Serbia). A Bulgarian minority still lives in the Pirot region and in south-east Serbia in general . In Pirot he attended the local Progymnasium. He continued his education in Zagreb , where he attended grammar school and successfully graduated from the university there in 1880, specializing in physics and mathematics . He then moved to liberated Bulgaria , where he was the school director of the grammar school in Lom between 1881 and 1882 and later an official in the Ministry of Education in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

From 1890 until his death Wazow was head of the Central Meteorological Institute in Sofia, which was founded in the same by the Ministry of Education. Four years later, in 1894, the institute became an office within the ministry and was also responsible for earthquake measurements.

From 1884 Vazov was an active member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences . He died in Sofia in 1928.

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• Упътване за провеждането на метеорологични наблюдения, 1888.
• Упътване за наблюдение на гръмотевицата.
• Опит върху електропроводността на разредения въздух.
• Физика. За долните класове на гимназиите и класните училища, 1891, 1895, 1896, 1903, 1906.
• Къде е съгледана най-ниската и къде най-високата температура.
• Народна метеорология. Сбирка от поговорки, пословици и предсказвания на времето, 1900.
• Месечни и годишни изводи от метеорологически наблюдения в София, Бургас и Пловдив през годин903ите 1894.
• Градиво за сеизмологията на България, 1908.