Bogdan Bogdanov
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Bogdan Bogdanov is a Bulgarian classical philologist, culturologist and translator
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. Bogdan Bogdanov is the President of New Bulgarian University
New Bulgarian University
New Bulgarian University is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. NBU is the first private university in Bulgaria, and among the top rated by Bulgarian businesses universities in the country...

, Chairmen of the Board of Trustees of NBU. Bogdan Bogdanov is Professor of ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek literature
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 and culture at University of Sofia.

Bogdan Bogdanov was born in Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...

 on 2 November 1940. He graduated from the Classical Philology Department of the University of Sofia in 1963 and later specilized in University of Athens (1978) and Amsterdam University (1984). He was also Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to Greece
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 (1991–1993).

In 1978-1988 Bogdanov was a secret informer of Department VI of the Bulgarian Interior Ministry (the Communist political police).

After the fall of communism in Bulgaria, in 1990 he founded with other intellectuals and become chairman of the Society for New Bulgarian University and co-founded Open Society Fund (in Bulgaria), and in 1991 founded New Bulgarian University
New Bulgarian University
New Bulgarian University is a private university based in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. NBU is the first private university in Bulgaria, and among the top rated by Bulgarian businesses universities in the country...

 - the first private university
Private university
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 in Bulgaria - as successor to the Society for New Bulgarian University (after a resolution by Bulgarian Parliament on September 18, 1991).

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