Gavril Katsarov Explained

Gavril Katsarov
Native Name:	Гаврил Илиев Кацаров
Native Name Lang:	bg
Birth Date:	4 October 1874
Birth Place:	Koprivshtitsa, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:	Sofia, Bulgaria
Resting Place:	Central Sofia Cemetery
Resting Place Coordinates:	42.7123°N 23.3346°W
Occupation:	Archaeologist, Classical philologist
Signature:	Signature of Gavril Katsarov.svg

Gavril Iliev Katsarov (Bulgarian: Гаврил Илиев Кацаров) was a Bulgarian historian, classical philologist and archeologist.^[1] Rector of Sofia University. Director of the National Archaeological Museum and the Bulgarian Archeological Institute.^[2]

Adopted as the father of Bulgarian Thracology.^[3]

In 1899 he graduated with a doctorate in Classical Philology and Ancient History from the University of Leipzig. He specialized at the University of Berlin and the University of Munich (1901-1902), followed by Italy (1906).

Full member (academician) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, (1909). Member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences (1936) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1939). Member of foreign companies and institutes.

Selected publications

• The Athenian State System (1904).^[4]
• Contribution to the Ancient History of Sofia (1910).
• Book: . 1911 . Sofia. ^[5]
• Sources for the Old History and Geography of Thrace and Macedonia (1915).^[6]
• Contributions to the History of Antiquity (1920).
• Paeonia: Contribution to the Ancient Ethnography and History of Macedonia (1921).
• King Philip II of Macedon: History of Macedonia until 336 BC (1922).
• Bulgaria in Antiquity: Historical and Archaeological Essay (1926).
• General and Bulgarian History for the Junior High School Course (1927).
• Book: Katzarow, Gawril . 1930 . Cook . S. A. . Stanley Arthur Cook . Adcock . F.E. . Frank Adcock . Charlesworth, M.P. . Martin Charlesworth. Chapter XVII: Thrace . The Cambridge Ancient History; volume VIII; Rome and the Mediterranean 218-133 B.C. . Cambridge At the University Press . 1930 . Cambridge . https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.185504/2015.185504.The-Cambridge-Ancient-History-Voll-Viii#page/n557/mode/2up . 534–560 . 25 January 2020 .
• Sources for the Ancient History and Geography of Thrace and Macedonia (1949).

External Sources

Works by Gavril Katsarov in libraries (WorldCat Catalog).

Notes and References

1. Velkov . Velizar Iv . Gawril Kazarov (1874-1958) . January–June 1959. Revue Archéologique . 1. 94–96 . 41754656.
2. https://www.libruse.bg/view?name=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BB%20%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%20(1874-1958)%20&event=2861 Роден Гаврил Кацаров (1874 - 1958)
3. https://www.academia.edu/2089789/%D0%93%D0%90%D0%92%D0%A0%D0%98%D0%9B_%D0%9A%D0%90%D0%A6%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%9E%D0%92_%D0%A1%D0%AA%D0%97%D0%94%D0%90%D0%94%D0%95_%D0%91%D0%AA%D0%9B%D0%93%D0%90%D0%A0%D0%A1%D0%9A%D0%90%D0%A2%D0%90_%D0%A2%D0%A0%D0%90%D0%9A%D0%9E%D0%9B%D0%9E%D0%93%D0%98%D0%AF ГАВРИЛ КАЦАРОВ СЪЗДАДЕ БЪЛГАРСКАТА ТРАКОЛОГИЯ
4. Web site: Atinskata dŭrzhavna uredba. 1904. Izdava Bŭlgarskotoknizhovno druzhestvo vSofii︠a︡ ot fonda"Napri︠e︡dŭk".
5. Web site: Zlatarski, V.N.& Katzarov, G.I. (1911), "The Agreement between Knyaz Ivanko & Genoa in 1387". 1911.
6. Web site: Извори за старата история и география на Тракия и Македония.