Животът и делото на д-р Иван Селимински в българската историческа книжнина
The Life and Deeds of Dr. Ivan Seliminski in the Bulgarian Historical Literature

Summary/Abstract: The Bulgarian historic science begins to study the life and the activities of Dr. Ivan Seliminski comparatively late. The first biographic works about him are written in the beginning of the 20th century. The late interest is compensated with a great many compositions about the man from the Revival period, published in the first four decades of the century. They cast light upon the main facts in his biography and point his concrete contributions to the cultural, educational, church and liberation movement of the Bulgarians during the Revival. The social changes and the Marxist orientation of the historic science in the 40s and in the 50s lead to temporary interruption of the examinations about Dr. Ivan Seliminski and to a consideration of his deeds mostly in connection with the history of the revolutionary trend in our liberation movement. The great in number and themes publications of the Revival intellectual from the last three decades are built upon a wide documental base and clarify in details his socio-political and professional manifestations. All the scientists, examining the activity and the ideas of Seliminski share the opinion that he has a concrete and great contribution for the connection of the Bulgarian society with the political, cultural and moral values of the new time. In reality, the Revival man from Sliven is slightly known to the educated Bulgarian society, because a lot of the modern scientific and popular researches treat him as a secondary historic figure and the historiography of his activity in the last years is developing too slowly and irregularly. The modem social situation demands from the Bulgarian historic science to turn once again to the colorful personality of Dr. Ivan Seliminski and to look upon the Revival period through the eyes of this considerable thinker and politician, whose high morality and patriotic impulse are combined with the measured political behavior and sober valuation of the concrete historic reality.

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