Bogdan Bogdanov (in

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: Богдан Богданов), 1940-2016, is a

classical

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, culturologist and

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. Bogdanov is the president of

New Bulgarian University New Bulgarian University ( bg, Нов български университет, also known and abbreviated as НБУ, NBU) is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Its campus is in the western district of the city, known ...

and chairman of the Board of Trustees of NBU. He is professor of

ancient Greek literature Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire. The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are ...

and culture at the

University of Sofia Sofia University, "St. Kliment Ohridski" at the University of Sofia, ( bg, Софийски университет „Св. Климент Охридски“, ''Sofijski universitet „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“'') is the oldest higher education i ...

. Bogdanov was born in

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on 2 November 1940. He graduated from the Classical Philology Department of the University of Sofia in 1963 and later specialized at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

(1978) and

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(1984). In 1978–1988 Bogdanov was a secret informer of Department VI of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry (the Communist political police), but the fact was officially acknowledged only 20 years later. The two decades after the

fall of communism The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, was a revolutionary wave that resulted in the end of most communist states in the world. Sometimes this revolutionary wave is also called the Fall of Nations or the Autumn of Nat ...

in Bulgaria, were particularly successful for Bogdanov. In 1990 he founded with other intellectuals and become chairman of the Society for New Bulgarian University and co-founded Open Society Fund (in Bulgaria). In 1991 he founded

— the first

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in the country — as successor to the Society for New Bulgarian University (after a resolution by

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on September 18, 1991). He was the ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to

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(1991–1993). Bogdanov published numerous essays and monographs in Bulgarian but few of his writings have been translated into other languages. In 2010 ''Reading and its Functioning. From ancient Greek literature to anyone world'' was published in Berlin.Bogdanov B., ''Reading and its Functioning. From ancient Greek literature to anyone world'' Berlin: Osteuropa-Zentrum , 2010, 144 S. () Bogdanov died in Sofia on August 5, 2016.

References

Bogdan Bogdanov, Biography

External links

Bogdan Bogdanov personal website
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