Fund Prof. Miroslav Yanakiev
Miroslav Nikolov Yanakiev was born in Sofia on August 19, 1923. He graduated from the First Sofia Men's High School as a Champion of Success in 1943 and later Slavic Philology at Sofia University in 1947. Later that year he was elected Assistant of Prof. Kiril Mirchev in History of the Bulgarian Language at the Department of Bulgarian Language. He has been an Associate Professor since 1963 with the habilitation work Bulgarian Poems, and in 1979 he was elected a Full Professor, presenting the work "Stylistics and Language Training". He taught lectures in Old Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian, Bulgarian Historical Grammar, Stylistics, Verse and Glotometry (Mathematical Statistics for Philologists). Over the years, nearly 900 undergraduate students have graduated in Bulgarian philology and journalism under him. He was the head of the Department of Bulgarian Language at the Institute of Foreign Students from 1963 to 1966. He was the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University from 1966 to 1968. He has taught Bulgarian at the Faculty of Philology at Moscow University since 1969. The same year he was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Semiotics.
Miroslav Yanakiev is a philologist with a broad interdisciplinary profile, an innovator in making paths to uncharted fields of science. In his works he used the methods of mathematical logic, information theory, semiotics, mathematical statistics. The pathos of his scientific pursuits is in the precise, logically consistent description and classification of the objects studied.
In the field of verse, his theoretical developments in the description of verse rhythm are original, for the purpose of which he first introduced terms such as "fema", "rhythm", "rhythm differentiator" and others. In her stylistic studies, she asserted a quantitative ("glometric") approach as a diagnostic tool for studying the diversity of linguistic phenomena. In a number of studies published in the editions of Moscow State University, he and his Russian wife Nadezhda, Prof. Miroslav Kotova Yanakiev apply the glometric approach for comparative study of Slavic languages. Participates actively in the development of the problems of language training in Bulgarian in secondary schools. He hace created textbooks and programs that, in accordance with the current level of child psychology, open up unsuspected opportunities for students' intellectual and moral development. He is the keeper of the mass introduction of the computer into school education.
Miroslav Yanakiev died in Sofia on November 9, 1998.
Yanakiev's rich archival heritage was donated to New Bulgarian University by his daughter, Mrs. Mirena Yanakieva, in June 2015.