Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski

Dr. Breskovski with students during a fossilling day in 1981. He never considered himself a rock star or a hunter.
Born (1934-12-25)25 December 1934
Granit, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria
Died 15 January 2004(2004-01-15) (aged 69)
Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria
Resting place Central Sofia Cemetery
42°43.074′N 23°19.904′E / 42.717900°N 23.331733°E / 42.717900; 23.331733
Residence Bulgaria
Citizenship Bulgaria
Nationality Bulgarian
Fields Barremian Palaeontology and Stratigraphy
Institutions National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria); Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Alma mater Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
Doctoral advisor Vassil Tzankov
Author abbrev. (zoology) Breskovski
Valdedorsella (Puzralpella) haugi (Breskovski), Mortagonovo, Razgrad province, Lower Barremian, Museum of Paleontology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Stoycho Vassilev Breskovski (Bulgarian: Стойчо Василев Бресковски) (December 25, 1934, Granit, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria – January 15, 2004, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian paleontologist.[1][2]

Biography

Stoycho Breskovski was the only son of educators Vassil and Paraskeva Breskovski. He studied geology at Sofia University and graduated in 1958. Then, he took active part in Bulgarian geological survey and in the preparation of the geologic map of Bulgaria at scale of 1:200,000. Later Dr. Breskovski was noted for his research on Lower Cretaceous, Barremian fauna.[3] He was also credited for discovering, identifying and discerning several families, subfamilies, genera and species of ammonites.

In the period 1974-1995 Breskovski had been research associate and curator of the paleontology collection at the National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria) in Sofia and contributed to the geology collections at the natural history museums in the Bulgarian cities of Elena, Rousse, Razgrad, and Shumen. In later age he tried to reconcile his various hobbies of collecting stamps, pocket calendars, phillumeny and philately with science. His older sister, Vesselina Breskovska, was professor of mineralogy, dean and vice rector at Sofia University. He was survived by his wife of 42 years and fellow paleontologist, Nona Motekova, a son and a daughter, a granddaughter and a grandson, and a siamese cat. A genus of Lower Cretateous ammonites was named in his honour.[4]

Selected bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ See International Palaeontological Union (I.P.U.) (1968). Westermann, G.E.G., ed. Directory of Palaeontologists of the World (excl. Soviet Union & continental China) (2 ed.). Hamilton, Ontario: McMaster University. p. 14. Retrieved 21 December 2016 – via Internet Archive.
  2. ↑ Tchoumatchenco, Platon; Nikolov, Todor (2016). "Compendium of Bulgarian Palaeontologists (1896-December 31, 2015). Part I. A-K". Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society. 77 (1): 48–49.
  3. ↑ See Vašíček, Zdeněk; Rabrenović, Dragoman; Radulović, Vladan J.; Radulović, Barbara V.; Mojsić, Ivana (April 2013). "Ammonoids (Desmoceratoidea and Silesitoidea) from the Late Barremian of Boljetin, eastern Serbia". Cretaceous Research. Elsevier. 41: 41–42. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2012.10.002.
  4. ↑ VERMEULEN, J.; LAZARIN P. (2007). "Nouvelles données sur les Ancyloceratoidea Gill, 1871 (Ancyloceratina Wiedmann, 1966 emend Vermeulen, 2005) du Barrémien supérieur et de l'Aptien inférieur". Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Nice. Nice. XXII: 27–86.


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