Tsvetana Romanska

Prof. Tsvetana Romanska has left us. Her early and unexpected death seems incredible to those who knew her - always so lively, active, always busy, cheerful and proverbially hardworking. We have lost a prominent Bulgarian ethnographer and folklorist, who devoted her entire life to science, a responsive comrade and teacher, who until yesterday captivated us with her creative plans. Prof. Romanska worked for thirty years in the field of ethnography and folklore. Born in 1914 in the family of our famous scientist Acad. St. Romanski, received excellent training, and early on she oriented herself towards scientific work. After graduating in Slavic philology at the Faculty of History and Philology of Sofia University, she went to specialize in Prague, where in 1939 she defended her doctoral dissertation and became a doctor of Charles University. Returning to her homeland, she was elected assistant and later associate professor at the Department of Slavic Linguistics and Ethnography. Since 1963, she has been a professor of Slavic Ethnography and Slavic Folklore - a very extensive field in which she works tirelessly and with great desire.