Veselin Beshevliev

Veselin Beshevliev
Born	(1900-03-25)25 March 1900 Sofia, Bulgaria
Died	March 1992 (aged 91–92) Sofia

Veselin Ivanov Beshevliev (Bulgarian: Веселин Иванов Бешевлиев) (25 March 1900 – c. 1992) was a Bulgarian historian and philologist. He was a correspondent member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1941 to his death. He was the author of Old Bulgarian Inscriptions.

Career

He studied history and Slavic philology in the Sofia University (1919-1920) and classical philology in Germany - Halle, Jena and Würzburg (1920-1925) where he took doctorate. He became teaching assistant (1925-1929), docent (1929-1933) and professor in Classical philology in the Sofia University. He was awarded the Herder Prize in 1972.

Publications

• 1979, Old Bulgarian Inscriptions, first edition; 1992, second edition
• 1981, Proto-Bulgarian Epigraphic Monuments

References

Bibliography

• Lang, David Marshall (1983). Bułgarzy: od czasów pogańskich do podboju przez Turcję Osmańską [The Bulgarians: From Pagan Times to the Ottoman Conquest] (in Polish). Translated by Olędzka, Hanna. Warszawa: Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy. p. 143. ISBN 83-06-00831-6. OCLC 749601279.