Mihail Petruševski (

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and sr-cyr, Михаил Петрушевски; July 2, 1911,

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– February 27, 1990) was a Yugoslav

academic, philologist and founder of the Faculty of Philosophy at the

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. He published over 200 philosophic works, but his translation of

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's "

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" and his adaptation of "

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" by

Grigor Parlichev Grigor Stavrev Parlichev (; ; 18 January 1830 – 25 January 1893), also known as Grigorios Stavridis (), was a Bulgarian writer, teacher and translator. He received acclaim as a "second Homer" in Greece for his poem '' O Armatolos''. Afterwards ...

were considered particularly significant for Macedonian culture. Petruševski was also a committee member on the first Committee for the Standardization of the Macedonian Alphabet, and a former rector of Saints Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje.

Annotations

*Name: His name is also written as "Mihailo" or "Mihajlo" (Михаило Петрушевски; Михајло Петрушевски).

References

Macedonian Information Agency

Rectors of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
1911 births 1990 deaths Yugoslav writers 20th-century male writers Yugoslav philosophers Yugoslav translators Academic staff of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje People from Bitola Culture of North Macedonia 20th-century Serbian philosophers {{Macedonia-bio-stub