In memoriam Francis J. Thomson (1935–2021)
In memoriam Франсис Дж. Томсън (1935–2021)
- Author(s): Anissava Miltenova Adelina Angusheva-Tihanov
- Subject(s): Personalia // In Memoriam //
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Published by: Institute for Literature BAS
- Print ISSN: 1312-238X
- Summary/Abstract:
Professor Francis J. Thomson, one of the most remarkable scholars in the field of the Byzantine and Slavonic cultures, passed away on 21 May 2021. A medievalist with an outstanding erudition and intellectual rigor, he shaped the studies of medieval Slavonic written cultures in the last six decades.
Journal: Scripta & e-Scripta vol. 21, 2021
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Page Range: 367-369
No. of Pages: 3
Language: English - LINK CEEOL:
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Anissava MiltenovaBulgariaProf., Dsc. Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BulgariaDescription
Anissava Miltenova is Professor, Dr. Habil. and Chair of the Department of Old Bulgarian Literature in the Institute of literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Recent and current research areas: text transmission in the Slavia Orthodoxa; typology of the macrostructure of Medieval Slavic Miscellanies; florilegia; apocrypha, Repertorium of the Balkan Cyrillic Manuscripts (encoding with computer tools). Since 1994 she coordinated several projects on computer processing of medieval Slavic manuscripts (joint with Pittsburgh University, USA; University of Gothenburg, Sweden; British Library, London, England; Institute of Russian language, Moscow, etc.).
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SUBJECT: Personalia // In Memoriam //KEYWORDS: Francis J. Thomson //
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