Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Raina Petkova is one of the founders of the professional social work in Bulgaria. She was born on September 10, 1895 in Veliko Tarnovo in the family of craftsman Petko Minchev. She lived briefly with her family in Tarnovo, where her mother was from. Then the family moved to the small town
Penka Kasabova (1901-2000) is one of the founder of the modern preschool education in Bulgaria. She was born in Stara Zagora in the family of Milyo Kasabov, who had a bookstore. In 1919 she graduated from the pedagogical high school in her hometown, her father advised
Boyana Christova Dobrinova was the first trained public health nurse in Bulgaria and started the first children health station in Sofia in 1924 together with Prof. Stefan Vatev. . She is one of the leading personalities in health promotion and modern child rearing in the
Maria Nikolova was one of the leading nurses in Bulgaria, president of the Society of Nurses and Editor of the Nespaper ‘Nurse’ in the 1930-es. Maria Nikolova was born in Jambol, Bulgaria. She studied in Sofia and in Plovdiv and after that in the American
Lidia Stoyanova (1901–1988) was born in the town of Lovetch in the family of the professor in surgery Paraskev Stoyanov and the midwife Nina Leyn. Lidia Stoyanova was one of the pioneers of the education of mentally retarded children in the 1920es in Bulgaria and
Nadezhda Alexandrovna[1] was born on March 29, 1938, in a noble family in Sofievka, Novgorod province. She receives a serious home education. She marries V. Belozersky and in 1856 comes to St. Petersburg. She makes a “salon” in his mansion and every Monday famous St.
Katica Ḱulavkova was born in 1951, in Veles. She is a poet, literary theorist, essayist, anthologist, storyteller, university professor, and academician, writing in Macedonian. Her main research interests are related to the literary theory and hermeneutics, comparative literature, Macedonian and South Slavic literatures, critical theory
She was born in 1926 in Skopje, where she completed primary and secondary education. She went to study in Belgrade (1945), but after the establishment of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje (1946), she returned to Macedonia and enrolled in the study group for Macedonian
Carevna Miladinova-Aleksieva was born in Struga in 1856, among the famous Miladinovi family (her father was the revivalist Dimitar Miladinov, and her first teacher was Georgi Ikonomov ‒ father’s pupil and husband of her sister, the teacher Milica Dimitrova Ikonomova). She continued her education in
Liljana Minova-Ǵurkova was born in 1939 in Prilep. She graduated in 1963 at the Department of Macedonian Language at the Faculty of Philosophy. She began her career at the Institute of Macedonian Language “Krste Misirkov” in Skopje (1963‒1977), in the Department for Modern Language. In