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: 38
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 Antonov23 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 Basanavičius1 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 Vezenkov1 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 Georgiev1849 – 2 July 1912
A physician from Svishtov who took part as a volunteer in the Serbo-Turkish War and the Russo-Turkish War, founder of the hospital in Pleven and its many-times director, known for his generous donations to education and healthcare.
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Read more about Aleksi Drumev1855 – 4 November 1927
A Bulgarian military physician and surgeon who performed the first ovariotomy in Bulgaria, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Medical Association, and a significant figure in the development of military medicine after the Liberation.
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Read more about Georgi Zolotovich1853 – 1909
A Russian physician from a noble family, who graduated with distinction in St. Petersburg, worked in Bulgaria as a district physician and surgeon, and afterwards devoted himself to psychiatry in Russia.
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Read more about Miron Vasilievich Ignatiev1833 – 1912
A physician from Tarnovo who worked as a military doctor in Turkey and, after the Liberation, in several Bulgarian towns. He was known for his devotion to duty and his humane concerns.
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Read more about Paraskev Kazaski17 July 1871 – ?
Dr. Veneta Kamburova is a native of Veliko Tarnovo who graduated in medicine in France, worked at the Rousse State Hospital, and remained its only physician during the Balkan War and the First World War.
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Read more about Veneta Kamburova1866 – 26 May 1961
Bulgarian surgeon, born in Shumen, who specialized in Vienna and was known for his military medical service and for the distinction "People's Physician." He is regarded as the first Bulgarian surgeon to be awarded this title.
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Read more about Ivan Karamihaylov1846 – 1909
A Bulgarian military physician who served in the Ottoman army in various parts of the Arab world. He was the author of medical works and memoirs, whose accounts provided the subject matter for Ivan Vazov.
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Read more about Yosif Lyubenov1834 – 22.12.1898
A Bulgarian military physician and public figure who took part in the Russo-Turkish War on the side of the Russian command. He held a number of administrative and medical posts in Bulgaria after the Liberation.
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Read more about Panteley Minchevich15 June 1850 – 9 August 1927
Bulgarian physician, volunteer of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps (Opalchentsi), and public figure, who took part in the Serbo-Turkish War and the Russo-Turkish War. He is known for his contribution to Bulgaria's accession to the International Red Cross.
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Read more about Sava Mirkov1864 – 1939
Bulgarian surgeon, founder of the Plovdiv school of surgery, who graduated in medicine and specialized in surgery in Paris. He was the first in Bulgaria to perform and publish a number of surgical interventions.
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Read more about Dimitar Ivanov Mihaylovski7 January 1846 (26 December 1845 Old Style) – ?
Dimitar Petrov Mollov was a physician, scholar, public figure and political activist, born in Elena. He is known as the founder of sanitary legislation in Bulgaria after the Liberation.
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Read more about Dimitar Petrov Mollov5 July 1868 – 11 February 1927
A physician and politician from Gorna Oryahovitsa, a participant in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, a member of parliament and deputy speaker of the National Assembly, and an honorary citizen of his native town.
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Read more about Ivan Stoyanov Momchilov22 May 1893 – 23 January 1953
A surgeon, obstetrician-gynecologist and public figure from Yambol, who took part as a volunteer in three wars. Sentenced to death on political charges and posthumously rehabilitated.
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Read more about Petko Ivanov Momchilov24 December 1873 – 20 August 1928
A physician from Elena, educated in France, who worked as a district physician and surgeon in his native region. He is cited as the prototype of literary characters by Emilian Stanev.
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Read more about Hristo Momchilov14 August 1885 – 1963
A surgeon and chief physician of the Haskovo Hospital, known for pledging all of his property as security for a rescue loan for the hospital during the financial crisis of 1933.
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Read more about Toma Nenov30 January 1857 – 6 May 1922
A Montenegrin physician who chose to work in Bulgaria, he made a significant contribution to surgery, health organization and medical literature. He held a number of high administrative and political offices.
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Read more about Petar Petrov Orahovats15 March 1862 – 20 February 1920
Dr. Asen Petrov was the founder of modern Bulgarian surgery, for many years head of the surgical department of Alexandrovska Hospital, and the author of 94 scientific works. He is regarded as the father of Bulgarian plastic surgery.
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