Veselin Beshevliev

Veselin Ivanov Beshevliev (Bulgarian: Веселин Иванов Бешевлиев; 25 March 1900 – c. 1992) was a Bulgarian historian and philologist. He was a correspondent member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences from 1941 to his death. He was the author of Old Bulgarian Inscriptions.

Veselin Beshevliev
Born	(1900-03-25)25 March 1900 Sofia, Bulgaria
Died	March 1992 (aged 91–92) Sofia

Career

He studied history and Slavic philology in the Sofia University (1919-1920) and classical philology in Germany - Halle, Jena and Würzburg (1920-1925) where he took doctorate. He became teaching assistant (1925-1929), docent (1929-1933) and professor in Classical philology in the Sofia University. He was awarded the Herder Prize in 1972.

Publications

• 1979, Old Bulgarian Inscriptions, first edition;^[1] 1992, second edition^[2]
• 1981, Proto-Bulgarian Epigraphic Monuments^[3]