Ivan Simeonov Duichev ( bg, Иван Симеонов Дуйчев; May 1, 1907,

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- April 24, 1986, Sofia) was a Bulgarian historian and paleographer with a focus on Bulgarian and Byzantine medieval history. Throughout his scientific and research life he has followed the maxim of his teacher

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that Bulgarian history is inextricably linked and incomprehensible without Byzantine history. Adopted as the father of ''Bulgarian archival studies''. He specialized and defended his doctorate at the University of Rome on the topic " Asen dynasty in

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". He is a graduate of the Vatican School of Paleography, Diplomatics and Archives Administration. The patron saint of Cardinal Angelo Mercati, the

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, is the patron and mentor. After the Balkan campaign, he worked on the ground in Macedonia. Translator of the Italian Headquarters and Commandant's Office in Greece during the Second World War. In 1945, for the purpose of educating and publicizing the war in support of the

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, the new Greek authorities included Ivan Duychev in a list of Bulgarian, Italian, and German military and other individuals to be tried in Athens as war criminals. Duichev is accused in particular of "the theft and removal of Greek cultural values from Greece to Bulgaria", such as the Greek authorities' interpretation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage on the territory of Greece, and in particular in

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, which Duichev saved from plunder. a side of anti-Bulgarian Greek partisans. Member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Corresponding Member of the

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(London), Member of the Pontifical Academy of Archeology (Rome), winner of the

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(1974). His scientific output includes over 500 publications. Its name is given by the Institute for Slavic-Byzantine Studies at Sofia University.Проф. Иван Дуйчев
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" (2005). Ivan Duichev contributed to the definitive methodological continuity perception of the medieval

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with respect to

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and Ottoman Bulgaria.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Duichev, Ivan 20th-century Bulgarian historians Bulgarian medievalists Palaeographers Archivists 1907 births 1986 deaths Sofia University alumni Sofia University faculty Sapienza University of Rome alumni Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy Foreign members of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts Cyrillo-Methodian studies Scholars of Byzantine history

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