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The University of Sofia at Eighty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Marin Pundeff
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Slavic Review , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , September 1968 , pp. 438 - 446
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1968

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1. M. Arnaudov, lstoriia na Sofiiskiia Universitet sv. Kliment Okhridski prez purvoto mu polustoletie, 1888-1938 (Sofia, 1939), p. 15. This is a comprehensive history of the university to 1938, by a noted professor and onetime rector of the university. There is also a briefer illustrated version by Arnaudov, , Sofiiski Universitet sv. Kliment Okhridski: Kratka istoriia za 50-godishninata ot osnovavaneto mu (Sofia, 1939)Google Scholar. The first forty years of the university's life were outlined by one of its founders, ProfessorGeorgov, Ivan, in Almanakh na Sofiiskiia Universitet, 1888-1928 (Sofia, 1929), pp. 1–167 Google Scholar. Georgov also provided an exhaustive bibliography. For details to 1938 I have relied mainly on Arnaudov. For recent materials I am indebted to the University and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

2 Arnaudov, M., Bulgarskoto Knizhovno Druzhestvo v Braila, 1869-1876 (Sofia, 1966), pp. 12–14 Google Scholar. The Literary Society became the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1911

3 One of Jireik's contracts with the Bulgarian government stipulated that in the event a higher school or a university was opened in Sofia, he would become a professor in it. See his Bulgarski dnevnik, 50 ohtomvri 1879—26 oktomvri 1884 g., I (Sofia, 1930), xix-xxiv.

4 In subsequent years the regulations underwent numerous changes. The text that governed the university's life prior to 1944 is in Durzhaven Vestnik, No. 18a, Aug. 14, 1940.

5 In regard to qualifications for academic appointment, the Academic Council ruled in 1924 that a doctoral dissertation or other work submitted as a requirement for a degree could not serve as Habilitationsschrift, which must be an independently produced work (Arnaudov, Istoriia na Sofiiskiia Universitet, p. 503).

6 A detailed account of the crisis is given ibid., pp. 229-302.

7 See Atrocités bulgares en Macédoine (faits et documents): Exposé soumis par le recteur des universités d'Athènes aux recteurs des universiéy d'Europe et d'Amérique (Athens, 1913) and Réponse à la brochure des professeurs de l'université d'Athdnes “Atrocitds bulgares en Macedoine” par les professeurs de I'universite’ de Sofia (Sofia, 1913). Moved by the efforts of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to establish the truth (see Report of the International Commission to Inquire into the Causes and Conduct of tlie Balkan Wars [Washington, 1914]), the university planned to name a hall after Andrew Carnegie in its proposed main building, but the war prevented its construction.

8 S. Omarchevski, La question de l'Université à la Chambrc (Sofia, 1922).

9 The biobibliographies of the staff from 1888 to 1939 are in Almanakh na Sofiiskiia Universitet sv. Kliment Okhridski: Zhivotopisni i knigopisni svedeniia za prepodavatelite (Sofia, 1940). Its 1929 edition (note 1 above) was not entirely superseded.

10 The texts of the addresses and a full account of the celebration are in Iubileini turzhestva mai 1939 po sluchai 50-godishninata na Universiteta, 1888-1938 (Sofia, 1940).

11 Kratka bulgarska entsiklopediia, I (Sofia, 1963), 514-15.

12 Durzhaven Vestnik, No. 243, Nov. 3, 1944.

13 The following sources provide some information: Avramov, P., Bulgarskata komunisticheska partiia i formirane na sotsialisticheskata inteligentsiia (Sofia, 1966)Google Scholar; Kostadinov, G, “Upravlenieto na vissheto obrazovanie prez purviia etap ot razvitieto na narodnata demokratsiia v Bulgariia,” Godishnik na Sofiiskiia Universitet, Iuridicheski Fakultet, XLVII (1954-55), 107–59Google Scholar; and Popov, G. N., Bolgarskie kommunisty v bor'be za osushchestvlenie kul'turnoi revoliutsii (1944-1948) (Kharkov, 1966)Google Scholar. Additional sources are listed in Narodnaia Respublika Bolgariia: Istoricheskaia bibliografiia, I (Moscow, 1954), 594.

14 Popov, p. 131.

15 Spravochnik na kandidat-studentite za visshite i poluvisshite uchebni zavedeniia (1966- 1967 g.) (Sofia, 1966), pp. 62-82. The chairs of each faculty are listed in Nauchni uchrezhdeniia v Bulgariia, 1966: Spravochnik (Sofia, 1967), pp. 83-86. The courses offered each year and the teaching staff are listed in Razpis na lektsiite, issued annually by the university. All faculties require the general courses of the so-called ideological disciplines, namely, history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, history of the Bulgarian Communist Party, dialectical and historical materialism, and political economy. The current requirements for admission are in “Naredba za priemane na novi studenti vuv visshite uchebni zavedeniia za uchebnata 1967/68 g.,” Narodna Mladezh, March 15 and 18, 1967.

16 Dimitur Kosev, Sofiiskiiat Universitet “Kliment Okhridski” na 75 godini (Sofia, 1965), p. 30. Kosev, a leading Communist historian, was rector of the university from 1962 to 1968. The new rector is Pantelei Zarev, a leading literary scholar and member of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party.

17 Kratka bulgarska entsiklopediia, IV (Sofia, 1967), 587. The dissertations are catalogued in the university library and listed in the monthly national bibliography Bulgarski Knigopis.

18 Spravochnik na bibliotekite v Bulgariia (Sofia, 1963), pp. 12-22, and Rabotnichesho Delo, Oct. 3, 1968. The university library publishes the occasional Izvestiia (1959- ) jointly with the National Library.

19 Rabotnichesho Delo, Jan. 13, 1968 (interview with the deputy rector, Zhecho Atanasov, on the eightieth anniversary of the university).

20 For some seven hundred biobibliographies, see note 9 above. For references to others, see M. Pundeff, “Sources for Bulgarian Biography,” Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress, XXIV, No. 2 (April 1967), 97-102.

21 The contents of the publications of the Academy are listed in Opis na izdaniiata na Bulgarskata akademiia na naukite, 1869-1953 (Sofia, 1956).

22 Ibid., pp. 80-129.

23 Kovachev, A., Bibliografiia na Sofiiskiia Universitet “sv. Kliment Okhridski,” 1904-1942 (Sofia, 1943)Google Scholar. University publications to 1955 are covered by Kovachev, , Katalog na universitetskite izdaniia, 1943-1946 (Sofia, 1947)Google Scholar, and Vasileva, Iu., Bibliografiia na izdaniiata na Sofiiskiia Universitet, 1947-1955 (Sofia, 1956)Google Scholar. A continuation of Kovachev's basic bibliography and a bibliography of Bulgarian dissertations for 1928-65 are in preparation; see S. Petkanova and Andreeva, S, “Sustoianie i razvitie na spetsialnata bibliografiia v universitetskata biblioteka i neinite filiali,” Izvestiia na Tsentralnata biblioteka pri Bulgarskata akademiia na naukite, IV (Sofia, 1968), 146.Google Scholar

24 For example, Trudove (5 vols.) of the university's Statistical Institute for Economic Research, published from 1935 to 1939. The Institute was established at the proposal of the Rockefeller Foundation and published some of its research in English. See Arnaudov, Istoriia na Sofiiskiia Universitet, p. 614.