Biographical directory

Physicians

The physicians featured in the books – ordered by surname, with references to the pages where their stories begin.

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Found: 38

Dr. Angel Dimitrov Piskyuliev

15 August 1845 – 9 March 1935

A physician, man of letters and public figure, Dr. Angel Dimitrov Piskyuliev was one of the founders of the Varna Medical Society and twice served as mayor of Varna. He worked as a surgeon, published medical and public works, and is known for his literary and translation activity.

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Prof. Dr. Petar Protich

12 March 1822 – September 1881

Bulgarian physician, figure of the National Revival and poet, born in Tarnovo. He worked as a military physician and psychiatrist in Bucharest, and after the Liberation he returned to Bulgaria.

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Dr. Ivan Seliminski

24 December 1799 – 21 August 1867

Dr. Ivan Seliminski was a Bulgarian physician-surgeon, educator and revolutionary of the Bulgarian National Revival. Born Yordan Hristov, he combined a medical career with active work for national liberation.

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Prof. Dr. Hristo Tanev Stambolski

1842 – 4 June 1932

Hristo Tanev Stambolski was the first Bulgarian professor, physician and public figure to have been educated at the Imperial Medical School in Constantinople. He gained worldwide renown for his research on dracunculiasis.

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Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov

30 January 1871 – 14 November 1940

Bulgarian physician, founder of modern surgery and marine medicine (thalassotherapy) in Bulgaria, and the first professor of surgical propedeutics at the Faculty of Medicine in Sofia. Besides being a physician, he was also a local historian, mountaineer, photographer and public figure.

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Dr. Ivan Ivanov Teodorov

1856 – 12 February 1934

Dr. Ivan Ivanov Teodorov was a surgeon who worked in a number of hospitals in Bulgaria, a co-founder of the first private physiotherapy clinic in the country, and the author of the first books on sea therapy in Bulgaria.

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Dr. Valentina Tranen

1897 – 1990

Dr. Valentina Tranen was the first woman surgeon in Bulgaria and the first woman physician in the country to head a surgical department. She was a daughter of the Tranen family of physicians from Pleven.

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Dr. Dr. Stefan Hadzhipenchev

15 April 1848 – 18 August 1913

A Bulgarian physician from Tarnovo, a graduate in medicine from Bucharest, known for successfully bringing the cholera epidemic in Tarnovo under control in 1886. He died of cholera after the earthquake of 1913.

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Dr. Georgi Konstantinov Hakanov

1851 – 28 May 1899

Bulgarian surgeon, a pioneer of bone and oncological surgery in Bulgaria, and a participant in the Russo-Turkish War and the Serbo-Bulgarian War.

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Dr. Aleksi Hristov

1849 – 8 March 1913

A physician from Gabrovo of the Palauzov family, a graduate in medicine from Moscow, a participant in the Russo-Turkish War, and for many years a surgeon and hospital director in post-Liberation Bulgaria.

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Dr. Georgi Valkovich Chalakov

6 September 1833 – 26 February 1892

Bulgarian surgeon, military and hospital administrator, politician and diplomat. Born into a prosperous family of Adrianople, he combined a medical career in the Ottoman Empire with active participation in the national liberation movement and in the building of post-Liberation Bulgaria.

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Dr. Stoyan Ivanov Chomakov

1819 – 23 November 1893

Dr. Stoyan Ivanov Chomakov was a renowned surgeon, public figure, and prominent fighter for church independence. He is regarded as the first professional Bulgarian politician.

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Dr. Asen Shishmanov

1848 – 1894

A physician from the distinguished Shishmanov family, born in Banat, who graduated in medicine in Vienna. He worked in Bulgaria after the Liberation and later practiced in Smyrna and Constantinople, distinguishing himself as a pioneer of surgery and a great philanthropist.

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Dr. Kapiton G. Yuriev

1851 – 1927

Russian surgeon, first director of the hospital in Razgrad (1879–1880), close friend of Zahari Stoyanov and participant in the Unification.

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