Професор Иван Шишманов и германската славистика
Professor Ivan Shishmanov and German Slavonic Studies

Summary/Abstract: Information is provided on the contracts which Prof. Ivan Shishmanov established with representatives of German Slavonic studies during the 80s and 90s of the 19th c. and during the first three decades of the present century. An attempt is made to show the influence of the rich intellectual life in Germany at the end of the past century on the formation of Shishmanov as a scholar and to outline his role in the development of Bulgarian-German cultural relations during that period, laying stress on his contribution to the popularization in Germany of the achievements of the Bulgarian humanities in folkloristic studies, linguistics, literary history, on the one hand, and his making the Bulgarian learned public familiar with the avant-garde German achievements in the same fields, on the other.

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