Education
Sofia University.
archaeologist historian university professor
Sofia University.
He was the author of Old Bulgarian Inscriptions. He studied history and Slavic philology in the Sofia University (1919-1920) and classical philology in Germany - Halle, Jena and Würzburg (1920-1925) where he took doctorate. He became teaching assistant (1925-1929), docent (1929-1933) and professor in Classical philology in the Sofia University.
He was awarded the Herder Prize in 1972.
Saxonian Academy of Sciences. Bulgarian Academy of Sciences]
He was a correspondent member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1941 to his death.