The great friend of NIM died. Dr. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska

The famous Bulgarian dialectologist Ph.D. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska, a long-time teacher and researcher of Bulgarian dialectology and Slavic studies, has left us. A serious scientist and fascinating storyteller, Dr. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska, together with her entire family, led by her father – the great Bulgarian ethnographer and folklorist Prof. Hristo Vakarelski, were great friends of the National History Museum since its creation. In 1996, they made a valuable donation - they donated to the museum a part of Prof. Vakarelski's archive, which was included in the jubilee exhibition dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Hristo Vakarelski (1896-1979). The exposition was opened two years ago at the National Museum of Art in the presence of Dr. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska and members of her family.

Dr. Vakarelska-Chobanska is the author of a number of fundamental works - co-author and co-editor of the basic Bulgarian and Slavic science - "Bulgarian Dialect Atlas. Summarizing volume (Part 1. Phonetics and Part 3. Vocabulary)", of the monograph "The Samokov dialect" and its natural continuation "Dictionary of the Samokov dialect", of "Lexico-semantic features of qualitative adjectives in the Bulgarian dialects", " Dictionary of the speech of the village of Hersovo, Melnishko", as well as other studies and articles.

The National History Museum offers its condolences to the relatives and colleagues of Dr. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska.

The pilgrimage in memory of Ph.D. Dr. Donka Hristova Vakarelska-Chobanska will take place on February 24 (Friday) 2023, at 11:00 a.m. at the Central Sofia Cemetery.