Andrey Danchev () () was a

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and Americanist who worked for the Department of English and American Studies at

Sofia University Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...

. Danchev was the author of a widely accepted system for the Bulgarian

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names and, together with M. Holman, E. Dimova and M. Savova, also an English-oriented system for the

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of Bulgarian known as the Danchev System.

Honours

The St. Cyril and St. Methodius International Foundation, jointly with the Department of English and American Studies at

established in 1996 an Andrey Danchev Memorial Scholarship to encourage the academic growth of young people in the field of English language studies in Bulgaria.St. Cyril and St. Methodius International Foundation: Andrey Danchev Memorial Scholarship
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Publications

* A. Danchev, ''Bulgarian transcription of English names'', Narodna Prosveta, Sofia, 1982. (in Bulgarian) * A. Danchev, M. Holman, E. Dimova, M. Savova, ''An English Dictionary of Bulgarian Names: Spelling and Pronunciation'', Nauka i Izkustvo Publishers, 1989, 288 pp.

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1933 births 1996 deaths Linguists from Bulgaria 20th-century Bulgarian linguists {{Bulgaria-bio-stub