Konstantin Josef Jireček
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Konstantin Josef Jireček (July 24, 1854 - January 10, 1918), son of Josef was a Czech historian who taught history at Prague.
He entered the Bulgarian service in 1879, and in 1881 became minister of education at Sofia. In 1884 he became professor of universal history in Czech at Prague, and in 1893 professor of Slavonic antiquities at Vienna.
The bulk of Konstantin's writings deal with the history of the southern Slavs and their literature. They include a History of the Bulgarians (Czech and German, 1876), History of Serbs, The Principality of Bulgaria (1891), Travels in Bulgaria (Czech, 1888), etc.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
