Lyubomir Miletich ( bg, Любомир Милетич) (14 January 1863 – 1 June 1937) was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the

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from 1926 to his death.

Biography

Lyubomir Miletich was born in

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, today in

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, to a Bulgarian family originally from

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(Odrin) in modern

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. His great-grandfather ''

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'' Mile had left Edirne and settled in the

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in the early 19th century, where Lyubomir's grandfather Simo was born. Simo had two sons, Svetozar and

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, Lyubomir's father, who, after briefly living in

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and

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, returned to his homeland to become a teacher in Macedonia and northwestern Bulgaria in 1859. Miletich's mother, Evka Popdaova, was born in Veles, Macedonia. Miletich studied in

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and

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, but finished school in the

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Secondary School for Classical Education in 1882 and graduated in

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from the

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and

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, where he was taught by Jan Gebauer. Miletich participated in the foundation of

Sofia University 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 ...

in 1888. He became a Ph.D. of philology and Slavic philology of the University of Zagreb in July 1889. Miletich become the

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of the Faculty of History and Philology of

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during the 1903–04 academic year. During the 1900–01 and 1921–22, he was the rector of the University. Since 1898, Miletich was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which it presided from 1926 until his death. Similarly, he was the chairman of the Bulgarian Macedonian Scientific Institute from 1927 to his death. Miletich was a doctor ''

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'' of the

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, a corresponding member of the

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, as well of the Russian Historical Society, the

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, the South Slavic Academy of Sciences, the

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, the Czech Scientific Society and the Czech Ethnographic Society, the Hungarian Ethnographic Society and the Russian Archaeological Institute. La Macedoine Bulgare

Miletich died in Sofia on 1 June 1937.

Honours

Miletich Point on Greenwich Island in the

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is named after Lyubomir Miletich.Miletich Point.
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* * * Любомир Милетич. Ловчанските помаци, 1899, с.12 (Lyubomir Miletich. Lovech Pomaks, 1899, p. 12). In: bg.scribd.com/doc/50486983/). * Series of memoirs, published by the Macedonian Scientific Institute in Sofia during the interwar period in several volumes: Slaveiko Arsov, Pando Klyashev, Ivan Popov, Smile Voidanov, Deyan Dimitrov, Nikola Mitrev, Luka Dzherov, Georgi Pop Hristov, Angel Andreev, Georgi Papanchev, Lazar Dimitrov, Damyan Gruev, Boris Sarafov, Ivan Garvanov
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