1. Bulgarian important cultural figure

2. Dr. Petar Beron (1799-1871) Prominent Bulgarian scientist
and educator during the Bulgarian Revival

3. to a rich and respectable family in the mountain town of Kotel.
He was born in 1799
to a rich and respectable family
in the mountain town of Kotel. .
He studied at a monastery school
in his hometown.

4. He furthered his education in Bucharest,
where he entered the Greek school.
He studied philosophy in Heidelberg, Germany,
got a medical degree and
did a Doctor of Philosophy in Munich.

5. In 1824 Petar Beron published The Fish Primer, the first modern Bulgarian primer. It was called that way because of a dolphin depicted at the end of the book. It was exactly that book that set the beginning of secular education in Bulgaria.

6. His encyclopaedism was remarkable.
Dr. Beron spoke nine languages and wrote in 5 of them.
He authored more than 20 works totaling more than pages in different fields of knowledge such as physics, chemistry, meteorology, geology, philosophy, etc.
He wrote about 30 volumes, not counting two dictionaries, an atlas, his doctoral dissertation (written in Latin), and the Fish Primer.

7. But the height of his scientific endeavours was the Panepisteme, in seven volumes, which was published in French in the beginning of 1861.
(5,000 pages with many original illustrations, drawings and tables!).
Petar Beron makes an attempt to create an universal scientific system which will logically and without contradictions clarify everything connected with the origin, the nature, the laws of movement, and the development of the macro and micro-cosmos.

8. Petar Beron worked on the development of Bulgarian education
Petar Beron worked on the development of Bulgarian education. He did a lot for the girls’ education in the country. On his initiative and financial support Bulgaria opened girls’ schools in Kotel and other Bulgarian towns. After his death in Petar Beron’s inheritance was used for the education in Bulgaria.

9. Beron Point on Robert Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Petar Beron.

10. Point Beron

11. Beron is portrayed on the obverse of the Bulgarian 10 levs banknote issued in 1999 and 2008.

12. Dr. Petar Beron Educator Scientist Encyclopedist Pedagogue Philosopher
Doctor

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