The Historical Knowledge at Sofia University

Abstract

The formation of modern historical knowledge in Bulgaria is directly related to that of the University, and history as a science is the foundation of higher education in Bulgaria. The first and only department of the Higher Pedagogical Course, which opened its doors on 1 October 1888 and laid the foundations of university education in Bulgaria, was the Historical and Philological Department, where the history of the Eastern peoples, the beginnings of culture, general Slavic ethnography and dialectology, Greek, Old Bulgarian, Latin, sociology, pedagogy, logic, and psychology were taught. The first lecturers were Alexander Teo Dorov-Balan, Lyubomir Miletich, Ivan Georgov, Nikola Mikhailovsky, Joseph Kovachev, Ivan Shishmanov, Stanimir Stanimirov, Ivan Danev.