Mikhail Ivanov Venedikov ( Bulgarian. Mikhail Ivanov Venedikov ; June 5, 1905 , Sliven - September 30, 1973 , Sofia ) - Bulgarian surveyor, long-term teacher at Sofia Forestry University.
| Mikhail Venedikov | |
|---|---|
| bulg. Mikhail Ivanov Venedikov | |
| Date of Birth | June 5, 1905 |
| Place of Birth | Sliven , Principality of Bulgaria |
| Date of death | September 30, 1973 (68 years old) |
| Place of death | Sofia , People's Republic of Bulgaria |
| A country |  Bulgaria |
| Scientific field | geodesy |
| Place of work | Prague Polytechnic , Sofia University , Sofia Forestry University |
| Alma mater | Prague Polytechnic |
| Academic degree | Ph.D |
| supervisor | author of 34 works and a number of textbooks on geodesy |
| Awards and prizes |  |
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Biography
Family
Born June 5, 1905 in Sliven. The representative of the old Venedikov family from the village of Banya. Father - Ivan Khristov Venedikov (1871-1943) - Bulgarian officer, colonel, participant in both the Balkans and the First World War, organizer of the Gornodzhumaysky uprising of 1902. Grandfather - Hristo Ivanov Venedikov (1834-1916), leader of the Bulgarian Renaissance in Macedonia, kmet of his native village and founder of the first class school in Bani (1869), one of the participants in the anti-Turkish uprising of 1876. Uncle - Konstantin Hristov Venedikov (1866-1933), general of the Bulgarian army.
Mikhail Venedikov married in 1944 the Italian Stefania Giuseppe Muso, daughter of the Italian civil engineer Giuseppe Musso which from 1890 to 1941 built many bridges in Bulgaria according to its designs. Children - Kamen Venedikov (born 1945), software engineer; Mila Venedikova (born 1948), mechanical engineer.
Education and work
In 1924 he graduated from the real department of the 2nd Sofia Gymnasium with an optional study of instrumental music. He entered the University of Sofia at the Faculty of Law, but in 1928 he went to study at the Prague Polytechnic with a degree in land surveying. He graduated from the Polytechnic in 1933, during the year he was an assistant in geodesy there, in 1934 he became an assistant in geodesy at Sofia University (until 1943). He defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Choosing the most suitable cartographic projection in Switzerland and Bulgaria."
Since 1943, Venedikov is an honorary associate professor, since 1946 an associate professor, and since 1950 a professor of geodesy at Sofia University. Head of the Department of Geodesy, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, Sofia University in 1946-1953 (last year he was the dean of the faculty). From 1953 until his death, he taught at the Sofia Forestry University, and headed the department of geodesy since 1953. Honorary Lecturer of Geodesy, Sofia University named after Kliment Ohridsky, Agricultural Academy named after George Dimitrov and the Higher Institute of Civil Engineering. He gave lectures on geodesy, on the subjects "Mountain vehicles" and "Cartometry and cartographic materials."
Venedikov also worked at the Geographical Institute under the Ministry of Defense, where he was awarded several awards for his great achievements in the development of geodesy and cartography for the needs of the Bulgarian army; at the Central Laboratory for Higher Geodesy at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Geophysical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Military Topographic Service of the Ministry of Defense and the Central Military Cartographic Base in the city of Troyan. He was a member of the editorial boards of the journals Geodesy, Cartography, and Land Management and Izvestia at the Centralnate Geodesy Laboratory.
He died on September 30, 1973 in Sofia.
Scientific activity
Professor Mikhail Venedikov is the author of 34 publications in the fields of cartographic projections used in geodesy; earthly magnetism; measuring and aligning triangles and polygons; trigonometric leveling, studies of magnetic anomalies in the Black Sea and determination of the coefficient of earth refraction in Bulgaria. The author of geodesy textbooks: the 1st and 2nd parts were published in 1948 and 1950, respectively, in 1951 a textbook was published for an astronomer, in 1953 - for forestry engineers, the main textbook was reprinted in 1962 and 1963. He also compiled “Five-digit logarithmic tables of numbers and trigonometric functions for the new degree division”, which survived 9 reprints (the last was in 1975, after the author’s death).
Rewards
- Twice Knight of the Order of Cyril and Methodius (NRB)
- Certificate of Merit and Gold Badge of the Central Council of Trade Unions of Bulgaria (1964)
- Certificate of the Union of Bulgarian Teachers, Teachers and Scientific Workers of Universities and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1969)
- Certificate and Golden Union Jubilee Badge of the Bulgarian Engineering and Architectural Society (1968)
Literature
- Veneta Kotseva, Essay on the abdomen and creativity on golemia Bulgarian surveyor prof. dr. Ing. Mikhail Venedikov (1905-1973). Sofia, 2005. On the occasion of 100 years of birth
- Encyclopedia Pirinsky Territory, Volume 1, Blagoevgrad, 1995
- Rumenin, Rumen. Officers corps in Bulgaria 1878 - 1944. T. 1 and 2. Sofia, Publishing house at the Ministry for the selection of “St. Georges the Victorious, 1996
- Tanchev I., “Bulgari in a foreign institution of military training (1878 - 1912)”, Sofia, 2008, Gutenberg Investment Company
- Popov, Konstantin Petrov. Locate Names in Razlozhko, BAN, 1979