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Alexander Fol
(
Bulgarian
:
Александър Фол
) (born in
Sofia
,
Bulgaria
on July 3, 1933; died in Sofia on March 1, 2006) was a
Bulgarian
historian and
Thracologist
. In 1957, he studied history at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and earned a PhD in 1966. He worked as a university lecturer from 1972 and became a professor in 1975. From 1980 to 1986, he served as Minister of Culture and Education of Republic of Bulgaria. His research interests lay in classical Greek and Roman history, the cultural history of southeast Europe and
Asia Minor
, and
Indo-European studies
. He is best known for his contributions to
Thracology
.
In 1972, he established the Institute of Thracology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, and became its first director until 1992. During this time he organized
International Congresses of Thracology
in Sofia,
Bucharest
,
Vienna
,
Rotterdam
,
Moscow
, and
Palma de Mallorca
. He was secretary-general of the International Council for Indo-European and Thracology Studies. He held a chair of Ancient History and Thracology at the University of Sofia between 1979 and 1987, and a chair of Cultural History of Southeastern Europe since 1991. He was the founder of the Bulgarian Research Institute in Vienna, and of the
School for Antique Languages and Culture
in Sofia (1977). Since 1983, he was director of archaeological excavations in the east Bulgarian village of Drama together with Jan Lichardus of the Institute of Prehistory and Early History at the
Saarland University
Saarbrucken
(Germany).
Fol was a member of the Accademia Medicea in
Florence
,
Italy
. Moreover, he was a member of the German Archaeological Institute, the Academie Maison in
Paris
,
France
and the Leibniz-Sozietaet in
Berlin
. He received numerous invitations as guest lecturer in
England
, the
United States
, Russia, Germany,
Japan
,
Greece
, Italy,
Sweden
, and France. His publications comprise twelve monographies on Thracian social history, as well as several articles in the field of Thracology. Alexander Fol died of stomach cancer.
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