Macedonian Scientific Institute
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Establishment and activity
It was founded in 1923 from Sofia UniversitySofia University
The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888...
professors and scholars, among the Macedonian Bulgarians. In the beginning the Institute began to publish the journal "Macedonian Review" and other scientific studies on the Bulgarian population in Macedonia
Macedonia (region)
Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...
. The "Macedonian Review" was concerned with Macedonia and all branches of the study of its history, culture and social life. In the 1930s the Macedonian Scientific Institute was managed by the known Bulgarian Professor Lyubomir Miletich
Lyubomir Miletich
Lyubomir Miletich was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death....
. Under his direction the Macedonian House of Culture in Sofia was built, where ethnographic museum and library were established. After 1945 the activity of the MSI was changed to serve the macedonistic policy on the Macedonian Question in Communist Bulgaria and Communist Yugoslavia. The new authorities began a policy of removing of any Bulgarian influence, making Macedonia connecting link for the establishment of new Balkan Federative Republic and creating there a distinct Slav Macedonian consciousness. In 1947 the Bulgarian Communist regime "recommended" the liquidation of the MSI. The archives and the whole museum collection including the remains of the revolutionary Gotse Delchev
Gotse Delchev
Georgi Nikolov Delchev was an important revolutionary figure in Ottoman-ruled Macedonia and Thrace at the turn of the 20th century...
were transported in the new established Yugoslav Macedonian Republic.
Resumtion
After the Fall of Communism in 1990 the Macedonian Scientific Institute was restored and the MSI started publishing again the "Macedonian Review". Each issue now has an accompanying English translation for the contents page, and article Summary.The Macedonian Scientific Institute also accepted a research programme and in the last years have published new collections of documents, monographs etc. In capacity of members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute today are academicians, professors, and public figures. It has relations with other organisations and especially with Macedonian Patriotic Organization
Macedonian Patriotic Organization
Macedonian Patriotic Organization is a political organization founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana in the United States in 1922 by immigrants from Greek Macedonia. It was originally called the Macedonian Political Organization but changed its name in 1952. From 1926 it has published the newspaper...
, as well as with scholars and scientific centres in Europe
Europe
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, the USA, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and Australia
Australia
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. Its publications are translated and issued abroad. Professors as Otto Kronsteiner (Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
), Tadeush Shimanski (Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) and Heinrich Stamler (USA) were elected to be foreign corresponding members of the MSI. Scientific meeting, conferences and other activities are part from the renewed work of the Macedonian Scientific Institute. It have to be noted, that in MSI works in interaction with Thracian Scientific Institute, Bulgarian scientific organisation, which studies the Region of Thrace
Thrace
Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...
and the Bulgarian part of its population. MNI also has developed scientific centers and branches in different cities in Bulgaria.
Presidents of MSI
- 1923 - 1927 professor Ivan Georgov, philosopher from VelesVeles (city)Veles is a city in the center of the Republic of Macedonia on the Vardar river. The city of Veles is the seat of Veles Municipality.-Name:The city's name was Vylosa in Ancient Greek and before the Balkan Wars, it was a township with the name Köprülü in the Üsküp sandjak, Ottoman empire for 600...
- 1928 - 1937 professor Lyubomir MiletichLyubomir MiletichLyubomir Miletich was a leading Bulgarian linguist, ethnographer, dialectologist and historian, as well as the chairman of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1926 to his death....
, linguist from Shtip - 1937 - 1944 professor Nikola Stoyanov, mathematician and astronomer from Doyran
- 1945 - professor Dimitar Silyanovski, jurist from Krushevo
- 1945 - 1947 Georgi Kulishev, jurist and politician from Doyran
- 1990 - 1997 professor Petar Shapkarev, economist, by descend from OhridOhridOhrid is a city on the eastern shore of Lake Ohrid in the Republic of Macedonia. It has about 42,000 inhabitants, making it the seventh largest city in the country. The city is the seat of Ohrid Municipality. Ohrid is notable for having once had 365 churches, one for each day of the year and has...
- 1997 - 2008 professor Dimitar Gocev, historian from Pancharevo, Pehchevo municipality, Republic of MacedoniaRepublic of MacedoniaMacedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
- 2008 - professor Trendafil Mitev, historian from SofiaSofiaSofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
.
See also
- Macedonia (region)Macedonia (region)Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe. Its boundaries have changed considerably over time, but nowadays the region is considered to include parts of five Balkan countries: Greece, the Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, Albania, Serbia, as...
, geographical region - Macedonism
- Macedonia (terminology)Macedonia (terminology)The name Macedonia is used in a number of competing or overlapping meanings to describe geographical, political and historical areas, languages and peoples in a part of south-eastern Europe. It has been a major source of political controversy since the early 20th century...