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
between 1805 and 1810 – before reaching the age of 50 (the exact date is not given)
A physician from Tarnovo in the 19th century, who worked as a military doctor in Constantinople and took part in an operation on Sultan Abdulmejid. He died young of a tropical disease in Egypt.
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Read more about Georgi Popovich12 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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Read more about Petar Protich26 October 1843 – 6 March 1920
A Russian military surgeon, traveller and painter who worked in the Gabrovo hospital during the Russo-Turkish War. Author of the book "Two Months in Gabrovo".
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Read more about Pavel Yakovlevich Pyasetski13 February 1838 – 1919
Bulgarian physician, surgeon and public figure, friend of Aleko Konstantinov and the prototype of the physician in the travelogue "To Chicago and Back". Long-serving director of the Rousse First-Class Hospital.
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Read more about Stoyan Radoslavov20 June 1914 – 28 March 1994
Bulgarian surgeon, known as "the surgeon of hopeless cases", author of operative methods in abdominal surgery and of 174 scientific publications. He worked in a number of hospitals across the country, including Pirogov and the Yambol Hospital.
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Read more about Ivan Vladimirov Rumenov1848 – 1915
Bulgarian military physician, participant in the Serbo-Turkish War (1876) and the Russo-Turkish War as a physician with a Romanian unit, later chairman of the Bulgarian Red Cross and mayor of Sofia.
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Read more about Georgi Sarafov1866 – 1921
A Bulgarian physician who graduated in medicine in Paris and served as an assistant in the clinic of Prof. Pierre Potain. He pursued medical, public and charitable activity in Bulgaria.
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Read more about Stefan Sarafov1852 – ?
A Bulgarian physician, participant in the Serbian-Turkish War and the Russo-Turkish War, regarded as a pioneer of anthropology in Bulgaria.
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Read more about Yordan Sevov24 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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Read more about Ivan Seliminski1848 – ?
A Bulgarian physician who graduated in medicine in Bucharest, a participant in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), and one of the founders of the Bulgarian Medical Society.
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Read more about Ivan Slavkov3 February 1875 – ?
Dr. Stefan Smyadovski was a physician from Shumen and the first organizer of the fight against tuberculosis in the region. Despite repeated dismissals, he remained faithful to his medical duty to his fellow townspeople.
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Read more about Stefan Smyadovski1909 – 1983
Dr. Teodosi Smyadovski was the son of Dr. Stefan Smyadovski, a specialist surgeon who introduced major thoracic operations in Shumen. Together with Dr. Chankov, he performed the first right lobectomy for cavernous pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Read more about Teodosi Smyadovski1842 – 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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Read more about Hristo Tanev Stambolski30 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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Read more about Paraskev Stoyanov1844 – 1894
Dr. Todor Stoyanovich is presented as the first Bulgarian specialist in urology and the founder of the hospital in Stara Zagora. He took an active part in the public and political life of Bulgaria.
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Read more about Todor Stoyanovich1 August 1847 – 4 January 1904
Georgi Ivanov Stranski was a Bulgarian physician from Kalofer, a participant in the battles for Pleven during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). He is also known for his active political career – he took part in the Unification and held a number of state offices.
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Read more about Georgi Ivanov Stranski20 October 1876 – 27 October 1933
Dr. Sayko Sayev was a surgeon who worked mainly in Lovech, known for developing the surgical department of the Lovech Hospital and for his active public work.
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Read more about Sayko Sayev1871 – 1944
Hristo Tantilov was born in Karlovo in 1871 and is described as "the first dedicated orthopedic surgeon in our country." He graduated in medicine at Montpellier and specialized in surgery and orthopedics in London, Paris and Vienna.
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Read more about Hristo Tantilov1856 – 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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Read more about Ivan Ivanov Teodorov31 January 1901 – 1 September 1974
Dr. Spiridon Todorov was a Bulgarian surgeon, born into a family of physicians, who worked successively in Rousse, Lom and Silistra. He is also known for his literary activity – he founded the first literary circle for health workers in Bulgaria.
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Read more about Spiridon Todorov1897 – 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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Read more about Valentina Tranen15 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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Read more about Dr. Stefan Hadzhipenchev1851 – 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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Read more about Georgi Konstantinov Hakanov1849 – 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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