site.btaBulgarian and Romanian Academies of Sciences Sign New Cooperation Agreement
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS) and the Romanian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Tuesday signed a new cooperation agreement at a ceremony in Bucharest. The agreement is part of the initiative to celebrate BAS’s 155th anniversary.
BAS President Julian Revalski said this is not just a renewal of the cooperation agreement between the Bulgarian and Romanian academies, but a new beginning. In his words, of all similar institutions, BAS has the biggest number of common projects with the Romanian Academy. "Both academies were founded as literary societies. Both were founded in Romania. The entire career of Peter Beron, one of the first Bulgarian enlighteners who laid the foundations of education in Bulgaria during the National Revival, was also linked to Romania," Revalski added.
RAS President Ioan-Aurel Pop that he is proud that BAS's history is connected to Romania. He recalled that both academies were founded at the time when Romania was switching from the Cyrillic to the Roman alphabet. "We are proud that BAS was founded in Romania and that our country supported such an important event," Pop said.
An exhibition dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the first edition of Petar Beron's Fish Primer opened at the RAS Library in Bucharest. The exhibition tells the story and part of the content of the book. Beron's life was linked to Romania - he studied at the Princely Academy in Bucharest, was fluent in nine languages and authored about 20 scientific works.
Published in Kronstadt (now Brasov, Romania) in 1824, Dr Beron's Fish Primer (its full title is Primer with Various Instructions) is the first textbook (and first book) to be printed in modern Bulgarian and also Bulgaria's earliest secular print publication. With its encyclopaedic coverage of various fields of science, the Fish Primer was a cultural milestone of the National Revival.
Revalski said the exhibition showed there was more to the primer than the alphabet. The Fish Primer features so many things that it can be described as the first Bulgarian encyclopedia, the BAS President said.
The Bulgarian delegation, which includes BTA Director General Kiril Valchev and Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Romania Radko Vlaykov, will visit on September 18 the memorial plaque dedicated to the founding of the Bulgarian Literary Society (today's BAS) in the courtyard of the Bulgarian Church of the Ascension of Christ in Braila on October 12,1869.
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