Ivan Dobrev is a Bulgarian

Slavicist Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics, is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic peoples, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was ...

. He is one of the founders of the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian 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 ...

. In 1962, he graduated Bulgarian Philology at

and for 46 years taught in it, as well as at other Bulgarian universities, the subjects of

Old Bulgarian language Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic ( ) is the first Slavic literary language and the oldest extant written Slavonic language attested in literary sources. It belongs to the South Slavic subgroup of the Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European ...

and history in Bulgarian. He has specialized in

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and

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. He has been a member of

Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated BAS; , ''Bŭlgarska akademiya na naukite'', abbreviated БАН) is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy, with headquarters in Sofia, is autonomous and consists of a S ...

since 1996. He is the author of more than 100 articles and studies.Иван Добрев: „Избрани трудове по медиевистика”
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dobrev, Ivan Corresponding Members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Linguists of Slavic languages Linguists from Bulgaria Sofia University alumni Academic staff of Sofia University Cyrillo-Methodian studies 1938 births Living people