Georgi D. Sotirov, Ph.D. (''George D. Sotiroff'';
Bulgarian
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: ''Георги Д. Сотиров'') was born on 27 July 1910 in the city of
Sofia. He was a
United Nations official and a Canadian settler of Bulgarian origin.
Biography
Georgi Sotirov followed economics and law in Bulgaria, then emigrated to
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
where he married the Hungarian Irene Tordai. He studied history and international economic relations as a post-graduate student at the University of Geneva and then received a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Friborg in 1943. After
World War II, Sotirov remained in Switzerland where he worked at the
International Red Cross and at the headquarters of the Organization of the
United Nations in Geneva
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. Under the auspices of the UN, Sotirov has been sent from Geneva to the headquarters in New York. He then moved to Canada where he worked as an economist for the provincial governments of
Saskatchewan and
British Columbia, and later on in the field of public health. He also worked for the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism for several years, and in his later years he was visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of Laval. Sotirov died on October 10, 1986, in St. Fofa, a suburb of the city of
Quebec.
Despite not being a historian, Sotirov wrote several books on historical themes related to ancient and paleo-Balkan history. His books are
revisionist in character and have
autochthonist inclinations, similar to the works of the controversial historian
Gancho Tsenov, as Sotirov supports views similar to the ideas of
Macedonist Antiquisation. In one paper, he argued that the
Glagolitic script
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derived at least in part from
Linear B
Linear B was a syllabic script used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from ...
.
List of works
* „Убийството на Юстиниановата самоличност“ (1974) LYNN- ("The Murder of Justinian Identity" (1974) LYNN) http://www.ivanstamenov.com/files/gs-justinian.pdf
* „Elementa Nova Pro Historia Macedono-Bulgarica“ (1986), Канада (''Canada'')
* „Омирово ехо в съвременната трако – македонска топонимия “- (''"Homeric Echo in Modern Thracian - Macedonian Toponymy"'')
* „Slavonic names in Greek and Roman antiquities“
* „Кому принадлежи Линеар Б“ (''"Whom belongs Linear B"'')
References
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Bulgarian philologists
1910 births
1986 deaths
20th-century Canadian historians
20th-century philologists
Bulgarian emigrants to Canada
Historians of Bulgaria