PAISII HILENDARSKI AND SPIRIDON RILSKI (A HYPOTHESIS OF THE COMPILATIONS OF THE SLAVONIC-BULGARIAN HISTORY AS A VESRION OF CO-AUTHORSHIP)

Abstract

The text for the first time proposes the scientific hypothesis that the compiler of the first rehashment of The Slavonic-Bulgarian History, appearing between 1818 – 1819, to which at a later point ascend a number of rehashments of Paisii's History, could be only have been Spiridon Gabrovski. In order to prove this assertion, a detailed analysis is offered both of all that has been reported in the Bulgarian academic science of the life of Spiridon Gabrovski, the compiler of The Brief History of the Bulgarian People of Slavs, as well as of facts which, at this point, have remained obscure.