 | DIMITAR SPASOV
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| Dimitar Spasov was born in 1971. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, with a major in Philosophy. Mr Spasov is one of the founders of the Pokrov Foundation, and was a member of the Managing Board until 2004. He was the former editor of Mirna magazine, and is the editor of Dveri na Pravoslavieto (Gate of Orthodoxy) web portal. Mr Spasov is also a member of the board of the parish centre at the Pokrov Bogorodichen Church, Sofia. He works in the field of insurance, and is married, with two children. |
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 | VENETA DOMUSCHIEVA
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| Veneta Domuschieva graduated from the Faculty of History in Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski. She is the author of research works and publications in Bulgarian history between the two World Wars. Ms Domuschieva is the editor of several publications of the Communitas Foundation, of which she is programme director. |
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 | MOMCHIL METODIEV, PhD
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| Momchil Metodiev, born 1969, graduated from Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, with a PhD and Master’s Degree in History. He has worked on the archives of the Bulgarian Communist Party, under the Cold War International History Project of the Woodrow Wilson Institute in Washington, as well as in the Central National Archive in Sofia. Mr Metodiev’s scientific interest is oriented towards papacy history in the Middle Ages, as well as the history of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church during Communism. As a researcher with the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past (ISRP), he has worked on projects relating to the history of the Committee for State Security. He has also authored the books The Popes and Their Empire, II–VII (Gaberov, 2002) and Legitimacy Machine, The Role of State Security in the Communistic State (ISRP & Siela, 2008), as well as articles in Bulgarian and foreign journals and collections. |
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 | KALIN YANAKIEV, Professor PhD Editor-in-Chief | |
Kalin Yanakiev is a lecturer in the Faculty of Philosophy of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, and member of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM) (International Society for Medieval Philosophy Studies). He has authored the books The Ancient Greek Culture: Problems of Philosophy and Mythology; Religious and Philosophical Contemplations; Philosophical Attempts over Loneliness and Hope; A Diptych about Icons. An Attempt for Contemplative Theology; The God of Experience and the God of Philosophy, Reflections on Knowing God; Three Existentially Philosophical Studies – The Evil. The Suffering, The Resurrection, as well as a number of papers and articles in the field of Orthodox spirituality, philosophy and medieval history.
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 | TZOTCHO BOIADJIEV, Professor PhD
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Tsocho Boyadzhiev is one of the leading Bulgarian humanitarian scientists and an originator of philosophical medieval studies in Bulgaria. He teaches History of Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, and is a member of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM) (International Society for Medieval Philosophy Studies), in Leuven, Belgium, and the European Academy of Science and Arts, in Vienna. He has authored the books The Unwritten Doctrine of Plato (Sofia, 1984); Studies of Medieval Humanism (Sofia, 1988); Ancient Philosophy as A Phenomenon of Culture (Sofia, 1990); The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century: The Nature and Men (Sofia, 1991); Augustinus and Descartes (Sofia, 1992); Philosophy of the European Middle Ages (Sofia, 1994); Two University Lectures (Veliko Tarnovo, 1997); Circumvolution of the Spirit (Sofia, 1998), The Night in the Middle Ages (Sofia, 2000) and Loca remotissima (Sofia, 2007). Mr Boyadzhiev’s translations include works of Plato, Plotinus, Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventura and Meister Eckhart, as well as others.
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 | VLADIMIR GRADEV, Professor PhD
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| Vladimir Gradev teaches Theory of Religion in cultural studies at Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski. From 2001 to 2006, Mr Gradev was an ambassador of Bulgaria to the Holy See and the Knights Hospitaller. He has authored the books The Disruption of the Way (2000) and Politics and Salvation (2005), Between the Absolute Sacrament and the Void (2007).
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 | GEORGI KAPRIEV, Professor PhD
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Georgi Kapriev was born in Burgas, in 1960, and is a Philosophy graduate of Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, with specialisations from Cologne and Paris. Mr Kapriev was in charge of the History and Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski from 1999 to 2007. He is also the chairman of the Byzantine Philosophy Committee at the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale (SIEPM) (International Society for Medieval Philosophy Studies) and a member of the Gesellschaft für Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Renaissance (GPMR) (Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy), in Germany. Mr Kapriev is a member of the Institute of Medieval Philosophy and Culture, Sofia, and a co-founder of the European Graduate School for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (EGSAMP). He was also a visiting professor for the University of Cologne (2005/06), and a visiting lecturer at the universities of Amsterdam, Bari, Berlin, Bochum, Würzburg, Karlsruhe, Cologne, Hannover and Zürich. Mr Kapriev has authored 14 books in the field of Medieval Christian Philosophy, including Philosophie in Byzanz (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2005); Id quo nihil maius cogitari posit – The Philosophical World of Anselm of Aosta, Archbishop of Canterbury (Sofia, University Edition, 2005); … ipsa vita et veritas. Der ‘ontologische Gottesbeweis’ und die Ideenwelt Anselms von Canerbury (Brull, Leiden-Köln-New York, 1998).
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