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TASEVA, Lora

Bulgarische Akademie der Wissenschaften

lemtaseva@gmail.com

Lora Taseva

 

Date and place of birth          28.10.1960, Lom, Bulgaria

Nationality                             Bulgarian

 

Field of scholarly qualifications: Byzantine-Slav Translated Literature, History of Mediaeval Slavonic Texts, History of the Bulgarian Language, Bible Studies, Liturgical Books of the Orthodox Eastern Church, Historical Onomastics

Education:

1979-1984       Bulgarian philology and History and Theory of Culture (“St. Clement Ohridski” Sofia University)

1986-1989      Postgraduate PhD Study (“St. Clement Ohridski” Sofia University),

1997                PhD (“St. Clement Ohridski” Sofia University)

Academic positions:

1990-1999       Assistant Professor at the Academic Library of the BAS, the Institut for Bulgarian Language of the BAS and the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre of the BAS

1999-2009       Associate Professor at the Cyrillo-Methodian Research Centre of the BAS

2009-2012       Associate Professor at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the BAS

[parallel 2010-2013]   Scientific researcher (SNF-Project) at the Institute of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University Bern

since 2012       Professor at the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology of the BAS

Fellowships:

1995-1996       Institute of Slavic Studies at the Vienna University and Institute of Byzantine and Neo-Hellenic Studies at the Austrian Academy of Science (7 Months, supported by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science)

1998                Department of Byzantine Studies of Münster University (6 Months, supported by the Union of German Academies of Science)

2000-2001       Department of Byzantine Studies of Münster University (18 Months, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

2003                Institute of Slavic Studies at the University of Bonn (3 Months, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Fritz Thyssen Foundation)

2008                Institute of Slavic Studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (3 Months, supported by the German Research Foundation)

2016                Institute of Slavic Studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (3 Months, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)

Most important scientific projects:

1990-1996       Critical Edition of the Berlin Miscellany from the Beginning of the XIVth century

1995-1998, 2002-2006           The Old Bulgarian Translation of the Old Testament

1998                Slavonic Anthroponymy in Byzantine Financial and Legal Documents

2000-2001       The Synaxaria of Nikephoros Callistos Xanthopoulos for the Triodion and Pentecostarion

2005-2006       Analysis of Textological and Translatological Peculiarities of Old Bulgarian Texts in the Great Menologion of Metropolite Makarij

2006-2008       Old Bulgarian Hagiography and Hymnography as a Source for Cultural Contacts between East and West in Europe during the Middle Ages

2008-2010       The Serbian Translation of the Prolog Stishnoj in the Ms. Wuk 29 of the Berlin State Library

2010-2012       Encyclopedia Slavica Sanctorum

2010-2013       The Church Slavonic Translation of the Works of Gregios Palamas and Varlaam of Calabria

2014-2016       The Balkans as а Golbal Crossroads: Encounter and Exchang

2014-2019       The Greater Mediterranean, as seen from within and without

2017-2019       The Medieval Balkans Talking about Itself: the Voice of the Natives

Publishing activity:

Author of two monographies, Co-author of tree editions of Medieval manuscripts and a Catalogue of manuscripts; of more of 100 scholarly studies, articles and scientific communications, published in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Macedonia, Moldavia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, USA. Editor of two books with proceedings of conferences.

Other activities

2004-2008          Deputy chair of the section „Human and social sciences“ of the Humboldt-Union in Bulgariа

2008-2013          Chair of the section „Human and social sciences“ of the Humboldt-Union in Bulgariа

since 2014          Ambassador scientists of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for Bulgaria

since 2014          Chair of the Scolarly Council of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology of the BAS

since 2015          Chair of the Counsil for Bulgarian Studies Abroad of the BAS