The eminent Italian palaeoslavist and Bulgarian scholar Prof. Alessandro Maria Bruni was honored by the President of BAS, Corr. Memb. Evelina Slavcheva, with a diploma of foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The ceremony took place today in the “Prof. Marin Drinov” Hall of the Academy. It is a great honour for me and I accept my election not only as the highest appreciation for my scientific contribution, but also as an incentive to continue my research together with Bulgarian colleagues so that there will be even greater development of this very important discipline – Old Bulgarian Studies or Palaeoslavistics, Prof. Bruni said with gratitude. This support from the Academy is very important for the development of international cooperation, he stressed.
The Assembly of Academicians elected Prof. Alessandro Maria Bruni as a foreign member of BAS at its meeting on 19 June. The chairman of the “Arts and Art Studies” department of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members (AACM), Acad. Svetlana Kuyumdzhieva, presented Prof. Bruni. He works in the field of Byzantine and Slavic palaeography, codicology, textual studies, historical linguistics and hymnography as well as in the field of Georgian studies. He is Professor at the University of Naples “Orientale”, today the largest Italian centre for the study and research of foreign languages and cultures.
His great scientific contributions especially in the field of Bulgarian studies can be systematized in four main areas: the study of the words of one of the most authoritative medieval authors and Fathers of the Church, Gregory the Theologian (c. 330 – c. 390); in the study of Old Bulgarian translations of biblical books intended not for liturgical use but for individual reading; in the study of the earliest hymnographic book known so far which had a wide distribution by the twelfth century in the Eastern Christian world; and in the introduction of a hitherto unused methodological approach to the study of Old Bulgarian texts.
On the occasion of the ceremony for bestowing the diploma, Prof. Bruni gave a lecture on “Old Bulgarian translations and European culture” in front of AACM, in the presence of the Ambassador of Italy, H.E. Mr. Marcello Apicella.
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