Valeri Grigorov Stoyanov, Professor DSc
President
Institute for Historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
[email protected]
Address:
Institute for Historical Studies – BAS
52 Shipchenski Prohod Blvd., Bl. 17
1113 Sofia
Scientific area:
Historical ethnology and anthropology; auxiliary historical sciences; Ottoman and Turkic studies; medieval equestrian peoples; Cuman studies; Southeast Europe and Eurasia; national and minority issues;
Scientific achievements:
see the personal websites: https://valeristica.ihist.bas.bg and https://clio.ihist.bas.bg
Positions held:
- 2005 – present – Professor • Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1993 – 2012 – Deputy Director • Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
- 1992 – 2020 – Head of Department • Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – Department “Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Informatics”
- 1991 – 2004 – Associate Professor (Senior Research Associate, 2nd degree) • Institute of History – Department “Auxiliary Historical Sciences and Informatics”
- 1982 – 1991 – Research Fellow • Unified Centre of History – Sector “Auxiliary Historical Disciplines”
Humboldt research stays in Germany
2001 – 2002 – Berlin, Free University, Institute for East European Studies. Academic host: Prof. Holm Sundhaussen
1989 – 1990 – Bochum, Ruhr University Bochum. Academic host: Prof. Fikret Adanır
Activities related to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation:
- 2011 – participation in the Humboldt Colloquium “Scientific Cooperation in the Europe of the 21st Century” in Budapest (Hungary), 6-8 May
- 2007 – participation in the Humboldt-Kolleg “Forschung in Bulgarien und Rumänien: Probleme und Perspektiven nach dem EU-Beitritt”, Sofia, 30 November – 2 December
- 2005 – participation in the International Humboldt Conference “Challenges To The Science in South-East European Countries Before Their Membership In The European Union”, Sofia, 14-16 October
- 2000 – 2001 – Vice President of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
- 1998 – participation in the First Humboldt Colloquium of the Balkan Countries “Die Möglichkeiten der wissenschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit der Balkan-Länder”, Istanbul (Turkey), 25-29 September
- 1995 – 2004 – President of the Section “Humanities and Social Sciences” of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria
Selected publications:
V. Stoyanov. Valeristica Polyhistorica Supplementa: Selected Contributions to Borderline Fields of History. Vol. 1._Cumanica_, Vol. 2. _Miscellanea_. Sofia: Institute for Historical Studies at BAS, 2021. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov. Valeristica Polyhistorica: Selected Contributions to Borderline Fields of History, Vols. 1-2.. Sofia: Institute for Historical Studies – BAS, 2011. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov. Cumanology: Historiographical Sketches, Vols. 1-2.. Sofia: Institute of History at BAS, 2009. (in Bulgarian)
B. J. Groen, V. Stojanow. Bulgaria’s Path: Church – State – Society / Bulgarien auf dem Weg: Kirche – Staat – Gesellschaft.. Wien – Varna: Pro Oriente, 2008. (in Bulgarian and German)
V. Stoyanov. Cumanology: Attempts at Reconstruction.. Sofia: Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House, 2006. (in Bulgarian)
E. Radushev, Z. Kostova, V. Stoyanov (Eds.). Studia in Honorem Professoris Verae Mutafčievae. Sofia: Amicita, 2001.
V. Stoyanov. History of the Study of the Codex Cumanicus; Cuman-Pecheneg Anthroponyms in Bulgaria in the 15th Century.. Sofia: Ogledalo Publishing House, 2000. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov, A. Zapryanova (eds.). Fifty Years Institute of History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1947-1997.. Sofia: Gutenberg Publishing House, 1999. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov. The Turkish Population in Bulgaria between the Poles of Ethnic Policy.. Sofia: LIK Publishing House, 1998. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov. The Ethnonym “Bulgarians”; On the Bulgar-Turkic Mixtures.. Sofia: Ogledalo Publishing House, 1997. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stoyanov. Diplomatics of the Medieval Sources. Rulers’ Documents.. Sofia: Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1991. (in Bulgarian)
V. Stojanow. Die Entstehung und Entwicklung der osmanisch-türkischen Paläographie und Diplomatik. Mit einer Bibliographie.. Berlin (West): Klaus-Schwarz Verlag, 1983.