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 Date birth : 1958
Place birth : Bulgaria
Home adress : Bulgaria, Sofia, Ovcha Kupel- 1, B1.421-A , Ap.8
Office Tel : 0035928293785
Email : ivo_panov@bigfoot.com, Panov.ivo@gmail.com More : Main Field of Study: History of Iran
Subject of Interest: Persian Literature
Head of Department of Iranian Studies, Sofia University
Ivo Panov is identified as one of greatest Bulgarian Iranologists who won Iran’s Book of the Year Awards in recognition of his 25 years of work to revise and edit the Bulgarian-Farsi dictionary. Panov who has translated the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and part of Ferdowsi’s “Shahnameh” into Bulgarian emphasizes his people’s interest in the Iranian civilization. Some experts consider Bulgarians as lost Iranian ethnicities; a claim that can be traced into cultural proximities and similarities they have to Iranians.
His high education began in 1978 at the Kabul State University in Afghanistan, а major in Persian Philology, where he studied until 1980. Between 1980 and 1984, he continued his university studies at the State University of Azerbaijan at the Faculty of Extology, specialty "Eastern Languages and Cultures".
Since 1985 he is a part-time assistant professor of Persian language at the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. Since 1990 is a regular Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Culture at the same university. In 2001 he was a doctoral student, four years later he became Associate Professor. He has been Head of the Department of Iranism at the Sofia University since 1993, until today. Since 2007 he has been Head of the Department of Classical East.
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