Abstract:
The text is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Marin Vassilev (1907-1983) -
one of the founders of library education in Bulgaria. After 1952, as Professor of
knigoznanie (the study of books) at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia, he
followed the traditions in the field established by well-known scholars such as Stilian Kutinchev (1872-1934), Nikola Nachov (1859-1940), Stoian Argirov (1870-1939), and
Todor Borov (1901-1993). His textbooks - Istoria i technika na knigata, 1955 (History
and technique of the book); Obshto i prolozhno knigoznanie, 1963, 1970 (General and applied study of books), and Knigoznanie, 1971 (The study of books), the last one coauthored
with Vl. Vatrachki – present the basic concepts of knigoznanie; the history of
the European and Bulgarian book; and the technological aspects of book production.
Vassilev’s publications insist that knigoznanie is fundamental for understanding of the past, present and future of the book and of the contemporary cultural politics.
