Veselin Beshevliev

Veselin Ivanov Beševliev (also Veselin Ivanov wrote Beschewliew, Bulgarian Веселин Иванов Бешевлиев; born February 24, 1900 in Sofia, † October 9, 1992 ) was a Bulgarian classical philologist.

Veselin Beševliev studied Classical Philology, Slavic and Indo-European studies, first from 1919 to 1920 at the University of Sofia, 1920-1925 then classical philology at the Universities of Halle, Jena and Würzburg, where he in 1925 with the work of criticism of previous views about the use of the imperative and the optative received his doctorate in Greek prayer. After returning to Bulgaria he taught Classics at the University of Sofia (1925 Wizard, 1929 Lecturer, Professor 1933 ). In parallel, he headed the department of epigraphy of the National Archaeological Institute (1958-1964) and the Working Group ethnogenesis of the Balkan peoples of the Institute of Balcanic the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ( 1964-1972 ).

He dealt particularly with epigraphy and themes of late Antiquity, the Byzantine, the Balcanic and the Reception of Antiquity in Bulgaria.

Since 1941 he was a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. 1970 to 1992 he was a member of the Church Fathers commission of the Berlin Academy of Sciences. In 1972 he was awarded the Herder Prize. In 1974 he became a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.

Writings (selection )

  • Criticism of previous views about the use of the imperative and optative in Greek prayer. Dissertation Würzburg 1925
  • Гръцки и латински извори за вярата на прабългарите. Sofia 1929
  • With Johannes Irmscher (ed.): Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Bulgaria. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1960. Berlin byzantinistische work 21
  • The Proto-Bulgarian inscriptions. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1963. Berlin byzantinistische work 23
  • Late Greek and late Latin inscriptions from Bulgaria. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1964, Berlin byzantinistische work 30
  • For the interpretation of the fort names in Procopius work ' De aedificiis '. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1970
  • Studies on the persons name in the Thracians. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1970. ISBN 90-256-0532- X
  • Bulgarian - Byzantine towers. Variorum Reprints, London 1978. ISBN 0-86078-024-4
  • The proto- Bulgarian period of Bulgarian history. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1981, ISBN 90-256-0882-5.
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