Macedonian Scientific Institute

The Macedonian Scientific Institute (MSI), ( _bg. Македонски Научен Институт) is a Bulgarian scientific organisation, which studies the Region of Macedonia and mostly the Bulgarian part of its population.

Establishment and activity

It was founded in 1923 from Sofia University professors and scholars, among the Macedonian Bulgarians. In the beginning the Institute began to publish the journal "Macedonian Review" and other scientific studies on the Bulgarian population in Macedonia. [І. „Материали за историята на македонското освободително движение” 1924-1944, ІІ. „Македонска библиотека”, 1924-1944.] The "Macedonian Review" was concerned with Macedonia and all branches of the study of its history, culture and social life. In the 1930s the Macedonian Scientific Institute was managed by the known Bulgarian Professor Lyubomir Miletich. [Македонски преглед, година XIV, 1991, кн. 2. Академик Л. Милетич — научна дейност, София, 21 декември 1990 г.] Under his direction the Macedonian House of Culture in Sofia was built, where ethnographic museum and library were established. After 1945 the activity of the MSI was changed to serve the macedonistic policy on the Macedonian Question in Communist Bulgaria and Communist Yugoslavia. The new authorities began a policy of removing of any Bulgarian influence, making Macedonia connecting link for the establishment of new Balkan Federative Republic and creating there a distinct Slav Macedonian consciousness. [Europe since 1945. Encyclopedia by Bernard Anthony Cook. ISBN 0815340583, pg. 808. [http://books.google.com/books?id=hafLHZgZtt4C&pg=PA808&dq=Macedonia+WWII+bulgarian+++IMRO&sig=4Ewh_0ZI-OnSPTb3SaNmOHDOv7M#PPA808,M1] ] In 1947 the Bulgarian Communist regime "recommended" the liquidation of the MSI. The archives and the whole museum collection including the remains of the revolutionary Gotse Delchev were transported in the new established Yugoslav Macedonian Republic.

Resumtion

After the Fall of Communism in 1990 the Macedonian Scientific Institute was restored and the MSI started publishing again the "Macedonian Review". Each issue now has an accompanying English translation for the contents page, and article Summary.The Macedonian Scientific Institute also accepted a research programme and in the last years have published new collections of documents, monographs etc. In capacity of members of the Macedonian Scientific Institute today are academicians, professors, and public figures. It has relations with other organisations and especially with Macedonian Patriotic Organization, as well as with scholars and scientific centres in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia. Its publications are translated and issued abroad. Professors as Otto Kronsteiner (Austria), Tadeush Shimanski (Poland) and Heinrich Stamler (USA) were elected to be foreign corresponding members of the MSI. Scientific meeting, conferences and other activities are part from the renewed work of the Macedonian Scientific Institute. [ [http://www.president.bg/news.php?id=1099 Speech of the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov at the official meeting on the 80th anniversary of MSI, 18-12-2003] (Слово на Президента Георги Първанов пред тържественото събрание по случай 80-годишнината от създаването на Македонския научен институт, 18-12-2003.)] It have to be noted, that in MSI works in interaction with "Thracian Scientific Institute", Bulgarian scientific organisation, which studies the Region of Thrace and the Bulgarian part of its population. [ [http://www.duma.bg/2005/0105/220105/obshtestvo/ob-4.html Тракия без граници - мит или реалност? Проф. Иван Филчев, председател на Тракийския научен институт.] ] MNI also has developed scientific centers and branches in different cities in Bulgaria.

Presidents of MSI

* 1923 - 1927 professor Ivan Georgov, philosopher from Veles
* 1928 - 1937 professor Lyubomir Miletich, linguist from Shtip
* 1937 - 1944 professor Nikola Stoyanov, mathematician and astronomer from Doyran
* 1945 - professor Dimitar Silyanovski, jurist from Krushevo
* 1945 - 1947 Georgi Kulishev, jurist and politician from Doyran
* 1990 - 1997 professor Petar Shapkarev, economist, by descend from Ohrid
* 1997 - professor Dimitar Gocev, historian from Pancharevo, Pehchevo municipality, Republic of Macedonia.

References

ee also

* Macedonia (region), geographical region
* Macedonian, disambiguation between different groups
* Macedonism
* Macedonia (terminology)

External links

* [http://www.macedonia-science.org/news.php Institute home page]