Gavril Iliev Katsarov ( bg, Гаврил Илиев Кацаров) was a Bulgarian historian, classical philologist and archeologist. Rector of Sofia University. Director of the National Archaeological Museum and the Bulgarian Archeological Institute. Adopted as the father of Bulgarian Thracology. In 1899 he graduated with a doctorate in Classical Philology and Ancient History from the

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. He specialized at the

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and the

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(1901-1902), followed by Italy (1906). Full member (academician) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (1909). Member of the

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(1936) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1939). Member of foreign companies and institutes.

Selected publications

* The Athenian State System (1904). * Contribution to the Ancient History of Sofia (1910). * * Sources for the Old History and Geography of Thrace and Macedonia (1915). * Contributions to the History of Antiquity (1920). * Paeonia: Contribution to the Ancient Ethnography and History of Macedonia (1921). * King Philip II of Macedon: History of Macedonia until 336 BC (1922). * Bulgaria in Antiquity: Historical and Archaeological Essay (1926). * General and Bulgarian History for the Junior High School Course (1927). * * Sources for the Ancient History and Geography of Thrace and Macedonia (1949). GAVRIL KATZAROV'S GRAVESITE

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Katsarov, Gavril 1874 births 1958 deaths 20th-century Bulgarian historians Bulgarian archaeologists Bulgarian philologists Thracologists Leipzig University alumni Rectors of Sofia University Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences People from Koprivshtitsa Burials at Central Sofia Cemetery