site.bta170th Anniversary of Konstantin Jirecek, Author of First Scientific Summary of Bulgarian History

Wednesday marks the 170th anniversary of the Vienna-born Czech historian, Slavic scholar, bibliographer and honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Jirecek, author of the first scientific summary of Bulgarian history. "We, the able, led by the ignorant, do the impossible for the good of the ungrateful. And we have done so much, with so little, in so short a time, that we have taught ourselves to make anything out of nothing," he said in 1881 in his Bulgarian Diary (1930-1932).