Ivan Dobrev

Ivan Dobrev was a Bulgarian Slavicist. He is one of the founders of the Department of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies at Sofia University.

In 1962 he graduated Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University and for 46 years taught in it, as well as at other Bulgarian universities, the subjects of Old Bulgarian language and history in Bulgarian. He has specialized in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Member of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1996.

His scientific contributions are in a wide historical-linguistic spectrum: in the fields of Cyril and Methodius, paleoslavistics, textology, indo-European studies, paleography, epigraphy, ethnoculturology, folklore, lexicology, hymnography, historical phonetics, historical phonetics theoretical plan, the historical development of the Bulgarian language on the common Slavic background.

He is the author of more than 100 articles and studies.