The unknown epistolary heritage of professor Petar Dinekov in the Sofia Branch of the Central State Archives of Bulgaria

a contribution to our cultural history

Abstract

Prof. P. Dinekov is one of the most eminent Bulgarian humanities scholars of the twentieth century, who has his own place in Bulgarian science and Bulgarian culture. The discovery of a vast array of unprocessed Polish correspondence in his personal collection – 1987K – in the Central State Archives has become a kind of cultural event. These are letters addressed to P. Dinekov by Polish scholars and intellectuals from various humanitarian fields. The aim of my study is to reveal the intellectual processes that ranked our intellectuals next to the European ones in the recent past, namely from the 30s to the 90s of the 20th century.

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