Stephan Angeloff
Stephan Angeloff ( Bulgarian Стефан Ангелов, Stefan Angelov; born February 28, 1878 in Kotel, † October 1, 1964 in Sofia) was a Bulgarian scientist, 1941-1942 Rector of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, and 1947-1961 Director of the Microbiological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Life
Angeloff came from a family of landowners from the Dobrudja. He spent his youth until 1882 in his hometown, where he also attended the Progymnasium and then his education in 1985 ended in Rustchuk.
He graduated from 1897 to 1901 to study veterinary medicine at the Veterinary University of Berlin, which he successfully completed as a veterinarian. Then he completed his one-year military service at the 5th Artillery Regiment in Shumen and was then district veterinarian doctor in Provadiya. In the autumn of 1902 was Angeloff teacher for veterinary medicine and animal breeding at the National Agricultural School in Sadovo.
From 1905 to 1908 he was trained as a microbiologist at the Institute of Hygiene at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- Universität Berlin, Robert Koch and at the Veterinary College in Berlin with Robert von Ostertag and worked with August von Wassermann, Friedrich Loeffler and Robert von Ostertag.
His doctoral thesis under Professor Paul Uhlenhuth 1908 at the University of Giessen, entitled The gray translucent nodules in the lungs horses and their relation to glanders called Johann Wilhelm Schütz as one of the best pathological- anatomical studies on the Malleus.
In the following years he specialized at the Paul Ehrlich Institute in Frankfurt am Main and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and at Garches Gaston Ramon.
From 1909 Angeloff was director of the veterinary bacteriological center in Sofia. In 1910, he successfully developed the first in Bulgaria tuberculin and began the production of vaccines and sera against anthrax.
Angeloff initiated and established in 1913 a livestock inspection station near Burgas on the Bulgarian- Turkish border one. Here imported from Asia cattle were vaccinated with vaccines developed by him. This unique facility until then had so much attention that scientists from Germany, Italy, Poland and Hungary were informed about the methods and measures on the ground. This was achieved by the rinderpest already stopped at the Bulgarian border and a proliferation of for years to come to Europe was prevented.
1923 founded Angeloff the veterinary faculty at the University of Sofia and was the professor the first chair of bacterial infectious diseases.
From 1941 to 1942 Angeloff was rector of the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia.
After the war Angeloff was on July 14, 1947 Director of the newly founded Microbiological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which he headed until the end of 1961.
Together with Professor Luben Popov, he described the disease in 1949 Erysipeloid and discovered in 1951 the first case of Q fever in Bulgaria.
Angeloff was married and had two sons.
Honors
For his services Angeloff received numerous awards and honors over the course of his life. The Bulgarian King Boris III. gave him, inter alia, the Commander of St. Alexander Order and the Grand Officer's Cross of Civil Merit. He was since 1930 Honorary Member of the Hungarian and since 1935 the Bulgarian Veterinary Medical Society, 1932 received an honorary doctorate from the University of Berlin, and in 1940 the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. He was also since 1940 Honorary Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in Halle ( Saale).
In 1955 he became a corresponding member of the German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in East Berlin. In his home Angeloff was since 1947 a full member of the Academy of Sciences, winner of the National Prize Georgi Dimitrov First and Second Class of the Order, and " Cyril and Methodius " I. stage.
The Microbiological Institute of the University of Sofia wears in his honor since 1994 his name.