Stefan Mladenov
Stefan Mladenov was a Bulgarian linguist and dialectologist, a specialist in Indo-European linguistics, Slavic studies, Balkan studies, Bulgarian studies and a scientist of world renown and authority.
Career
He was the first translator of Henrik Ibsen into Bulgarian. Corresponding Member of a number of Academies of Sciences, including the Russian Academy of Sciences ; The German Academy of Sciences; Polish Academy of Sciences and more, including King's College London.He led the Bulgarian delegation to the First Linguistic Congress in Prague in 1935. In 1929, his "History of the Bulgarian language" was published in German under the review of Max Vasmer. Previously edited the special part in the second and third volume of the first three-volume story in Bulgarian by Benyo Tsonev. His writings are fundamental to historical comparativism, because Old Bulgarian is the fourth classical and medieval literary language .
Stefan Mladenov made a special contribution to clarifying the historical influence of the Bulgarian language and to the emergence of languages from the Balkan Linguistic Union. According to Mladenov, the South Slavic speeches within this union are Bulgarian.