Michail Arnaudov

Michail Petrov Arnaudov was a Bulgarian folklorist, literary historian, ethnographer.

Michail Arnaudov
Михаил Петров Арнаудов
Born	Michail Petrov Arnaudov (1878-10-05)5 October 1878 Ruse, Bulgaria
Died	18 February 1978(1978-02-18) (aged 99) Sofia, Bulgaria
Occupation	Literary historian, ethnographer, folklorist
Known for	Bulgarian studies
Notable work	Essays on Bulgarian Folklore; King Marco in folk poetry

He graduated from high school in Ruse, Bulgaria and obtained a degree in Slavic studies at Sofia University (1898). From 1898 to 1900, he specialized in Indo-German linguistics, philosophy and literature in Germany (Leipzig and Berlin) under August Leskien, Ernst Windisch, Karl Brugmann, Wilhelm Wundt, Karl Friedrich Geldner.

From 1903 to 1904 he specialized in Prague, where he defended his doctoral dissertation in philosophy, Slavic studies and indology under Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Josef Zubatý, Jiří Polívka.

Professor at the University of Sofia (1919). Holder of the Department of Glorious Literary History (1928-1944). Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology (1921-1922), Rector of Sofia University (1935-1936). Director of the Bulgarian National Theater (1926).

Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1929), the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, the Hungarian Literary Academy Petöfi, Honorary Doctor of Science at the Heidelberg University (1936) and Münster University (1943).[1]