Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 42: 12-17, doi: 10.3897/jbgs.2020.42.2
Academician Аnastas Ishirkov – A Life Dedicated to the Geographic Science and to Bulgaria
Georgi Zhelezov‡, Mariyana Nikolova‡‡ National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Zhelezov G, Nikolova M (2020) Academician Аnastas Ishirkov – A Life Dedicated to the Geographic Science and to Bulgaria. Journal of the Bulgarian Geographical Society 42: 12-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/jbgs.2020.42.2 |  |
Abstract
This article aims to fill the honorary place, which is laid on the founder of the Bulgarian Geographic Science, Acad. Anastas Ishirkov, in this collection of papers, but also to highlight some lesser known details of his research, socio-political and charitable activities. At the same time, the authors removed some inaccuracies in his biography accumulated over time and added new information about his life and activity. This was made possible by our research in the Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and from the materials for him in the Gipson Archive, as well as by the careful reading of the handwritten autobiography of Acad. Ishirkov.
Keywords
Anastas Ishirkov, biography, geography, history of Bulgaria