Biographical directory
The physicians featured in the books – ordered by surname, with references to the pages where their stories begin.
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Found: 109
1871 – 1960
Plovdiv surgeon, head of the surgical department of the Plovdiv State Hospital for almost three decades. A participant in three consecutive wars and founder of the Plovdiv Masonic lodge "Sun".
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Read more about Hristo Adzharov1844 – 21 March 1926
A Tarnovo physician, known as the last Tarnovo resident to bandage Vasil Levski. He took part in the national liberation movement and in medical work during the Russo-Turkish War.
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Read more about Stat AntonovA woman physician, wife of Dr. Marko Kostov and co-founder of the Kostov family, which produced six generations of physicians. She worked in her husband's private hospital in Stara Zagora.
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Read more about Saba Asenova-Kostova1897 – ?
A Bulgarian surgeon who graduated in medicine in Berlin, known for his work at the Catholic Hospital in Plovdiv and for his original operative methods in thoracic and abdominal surgery.
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Read more about Hristo Dimitrov Atanasov10 March 1821 – 9 March 1892
A Bulgarian physician, born in Svishtov, a participant in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and the first Minister of Public Education in the Principality of Bulgaria. He left a significant medical and public legacy.
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Read more about Georgi Atanasovich23 November 1851 – 16 February 1927
A Lithuanian physician who spent about 25 years in Bulgaria, where he worked as a district and county physician and contributed to public health and medical science. After his return to Lithuania he played an important role in the country's national revival.
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Read more about Jonas Basanavičius1887 – 1950
A Latvian surgeon, senior resident physician and leading figure at the Russian Red Cross Hospital in Sofia, known for his extensive surgical practice and excellent reputation in Bulgaria and beyond.
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Read more about Robert Yuryevich Berzin1824 – 24 September 1909
Vasil Beron was a physician, educator and archaeologist with broad scholarly interests in medicine, biology, history, linguistics, philosophy and archaeology. He is regarded as the founder of scientific medical literature in Bulgaria.
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Read more about Vasil Beron12 December 1844 – 24 May 1921
Bulgarian physician and military doctor, a participant in the War of Liberation (1877–1878) as a military physician in the Romanian army during the siege of Pleven. After the war, he became the first director of the Rousse District Hospital.
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Read more about Paskal Biserov20 January 1853 – 8 September 1940
Stefan Savov Bobchev was a Bulgarian publicist, jurist and public figure who took part in the Russo-Turkish War as a war correspondent and an official in the Russian administration. He is considered the first chronicler of the war of 1877–1878.
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Read more about Stefan Savov BobchevA Bulgarian physician, born in Shumen, appointed physician of the First Volunteer Company (Druzhina) of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). He took part in key military actions during the war.
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Read more about Andrey Bogdanov12 June 1902 – 13 December 1971
Boycho Boychev was one of the founders of Bulgarian orthopedics and traumatology. He was director of the first independent clinic of orthopedics and traumatology in Bulgaria and the creator of his own scientific school.
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Read more about Boycho Boychev Boychev1837 – 18 June 1882
Chief physician of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and the first chief physician of the Bulgarian Land Army. He is regarded as the founder of Bulgarian military medicine.
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Read more about Konstantin Borisov Bonev13 October 1838 – November 1904
A physician and public figure who laid the foundations of organized hospital surgery in Vidin. A participant in the Russo-Turkish War and founder of a Thracian refugee society.
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Read more about Mladen Zhelyazkov Bonev1 April 1852 – 14 January 1937
Bulgarian military physician, participant in the Serbo-Turkish War and the Russo-Turkish War, who rose to the rank of Major General and Chief Physician of the Bulgarian Army.
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Read more about Stefan Hristov Bocharov1 April 1847 – 26 January 1899
Bulgarian physician and surgeon, grandson of the Revival-era figure Hadji Yordan the Bearded. He worked in Sofia after the Liberation and contributed to the development of surgery and forensic medicine in Bulgaria.
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Read more about Dr. Yordan Ivanov Bradel1857 – 25 July 1931
Bulgarian military physician and surgeon, participant in the Russo-Turkish War, initiator of the founding of the Bulgarian Medical Union and first editor of its "Chronicles".
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Read more about Luka Ivanov Vankov1848 – late 1878
Bulgarian physician and volunteer who took part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) as a military doctor of the Third Battalion of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps. He gained renown for his personal intervention in the defence of Shipka on 23 August, when he led wounded men in a bayonet counterattack.
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Read more about Dr. Konstantin Ivanov Vezenkov15 August 1841 – 19 January 1890
A bulgarian physician of the Revival era, a participant in three wars and a deputy in the Constituent Assembly. He worked as a military and provincial physician and was an organizer of the medical society in Varna.
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Read more about Stoyko Yordanov Gaev1 September 1863 – 1932
Bulgarian surgeon who worked in Lovech and Rousse, known for performing the first nephrostomy in Bulgaria and for the high regard in which he was held by Prof. Paraskev Stoyanov.
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Read more about Yordan Georgiev1898 – 1958
Dr. Ivan Dimitrov Grebenarov was a Bulgarian surgeon, born in Plovdiv in 1898. He worked at the Alexandrovska Hospital and the Red Cross Hospital in Sofia, and later as a surgeon in Stara Zagora.
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Read more about Ivan Dimitrov Grebenarov20 November 1899 – 21 December 1980
A surgeon from Varna, described as "the last encyclopedic physician." For many years he headed the surgical department in Gabrovo and was a public figure with wide cultural interests.
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Read more about Svetoslav Dzherov1853 – 1909
Bulgarian physician, a graduate in medicine from Constantinople, who took part in the Russo-Turkish War, initially in the Ottoman army on the Caucasian Front and later in a Russian field military hospital.
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Read more about Petko Dimitrov1875 – 1954
A Bulgarian surgeon who specialized in Bulgaria and Vienna under eminent European surgeons, worked as a military and hospital surgeon, and after 1925 was in private practice.
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