Blagoj Shklifov

Blagoj Shklifov

Infobox Scientist
name = Blagoj Shklifov


caption =
birth_date = 30 January 1935
birth_place = Chereshnica, Aegean Macedonia
death_date = death date|2003|9|25|mf=y
death_place = Greece
residence = Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria
nationality = Bulgarian
field = Linguistics, Dialectology
work_institution =
alma_mater =
known_for = Bulgarian minority in Greece
prizes =

Prof. Blagoj Stefanov Shklifov or Blagoy Shklifov ( _bg. Проф. Благой Стефанов Шклифов) was a Bulgarian dialectologist and phonologist from Aegean Macedonia.

Biography

Blagoj Shklifov was born in the Chereshnica village, Greece in 1935.

In 1948, at the end of the Greek Civil War, he left his burned village and went to Hungary, with many refugees from Aegean Macedonia. In 1964, he went to Bulgaria and studied at Sofia University "St. Clement of Ohrid". He was a lecturer at the University of Szeged, Hungary and at Sofia University, Bulgaria.

In his books, he claimed that the Slavs in Aegean Macedonia are in fact, Bulgarians. For this reason, he was not permitted to enter Greece for 40 years. At the end of September 2003, he went to the Serres region to collect linguistical data where his car was smashed by unknown car without lights and he was denied medical care in the local hospital. His colleagues suspect he was murdered by the Greek Secret Services or by ultranationalistic organizations.

Work

The professor worked in the sphere of linguistics and Bulgarian dialects. He scientifically proved that the dialects in Aegean Macedonia are part of the Bulgarian dialect system.

Blagoj Shklifov made contributions to researches of the phonetics of the Bulgarian dialects, especially the phonetics of South-West Bulgarian dialects and their connection with Old Bulgarian.

Books

* [http://www.bgbook.dir.bg/book.php?ID=12561 Bulgarian dialect texts from Aegean Macedonia]

See also

*Bulgarian Human Rights in Macedonia

External links

* [http://www.promacedonia.org/milen/b_shklifov2.html Kostur and prof. Blagoj Shklifov] , in Bulgarian
* [http://pomnete.bulgra.com/docs/b_shklifov.html Bulgarian scientist killed in Greece?] , in Bulgarian


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