Vassil Tzankov
Vassil Tzankov Tzankov | |
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Васил Цанков Цанков | |
Stoycho V. Breskovski | |
Author abbrev. (zoology) | Tzankov |
Vassil Tzankov Tzankov (
Early life
Tzankov was raised in
Early career
Tzankov commenced work as an assistant professor in geology at Sofia University in 1930.
Fossils of Bulgaria
Beginning in the 1950s, Tzankov drafted a project in which Bulgarian specialists would write on their area of expertise in paleontology as contributions to a multi volume series, which would be published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Tzankov became editor, and also provided assistance for definition of morphologic terms, as well as other explanations. He supplied the parts to the treatise which concerned his own specialty areas.
Later career
In 1967, Tzankov was elected corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. In the same year he was also appointed as head of the Department of Paleontology at the Geological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a position he held until 1982.
Memberships
- Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
- Honorary Member of the Bulgarian Geological Society.
- Editor – Geologica Balcanica
Legacy and awards
In his later years, Tzankov continued his work on "Fossils of Bulgaria" and on
Selected bibliography
He is author of more than 100 publications, including 5 textbooks and 3 books.
- Les Fossiles de Bulgarie, Sofia: Éditions de L’Académie Bulgare des Sciences. Publié sous la rédaction de V. Tzankov
- Tzankov, Vassil; Pamouktchiev, A.; Tchechmedjieva, V.; Motekova, N. (1981). Les fossiles de Bulgarie V Crétacé supérieur. Grandes foraminifères, Anthozoaires, Gastéropodes, Bivalvia (in Bulgarian and French). Sofia: Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences. OCLC 31018111 – via Internet Archive.
- Tzankov, Vassil (1982). Les fossiles de Bulgarie Va Crétacé supérieur. Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea, Ammonoidea) et Echinodermata (Echinoidea) (in Bulgarian and French). Sofia: Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences. OCLC 1014711410 – via Internet Archive.
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The Main Hall of the Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology, Sofia University
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Holcodiscus mediocostatus Tzankov, 1935, Barremian, Razgrad, Cr1 1716 (Coll. V. Tzankov) at the SUMPHG
References
- ^ 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. 118. Retrieved June 30, 2017 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Tchoumatchenco, Platon; Nikolov, Todor (2016). "Compendium of Bulgarian Palaeontologists (1896-December 31, 2015). Part II. Л - Я (L - Ya) " (PDF). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society (in Bulgarian and English). 77 (2–3): 89–90.
- ^ Tzankov, V.; Pamouktchiev, A.; Tchechmedjieva, V.; Motekova, N. (1981). Les fossiles de Bulgarie V Crétacé supérieur. Grandes foraminifères, Anthozoaires, Gastéropodes, Bivalvia (in Bulgarian and French). Sofia: Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Tzankov, Vassil (1982). Les fossiles de Bulgarie Va Crétacé supérieur, Cephalopoda (Nautiloidea, Ammonoidea) et Echonodermata (Echinoidea). Sofia: Éditions de L'Académie bulgare des sciences.
- ^ "Геология на Шуменското плоскогорие и близките му околности, дисертация представена на Физико-математическия факултет на университета в София за добиване на титлата доктор по естествените науки от Васил Цанков от Горна Оряховица". Списание на Българското геологическо дружество. II (I). София. 1930.
- ^ Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft (1932). Bayenburg, Edmund (ed.). Internationaler Geologen-und-Mineralogen-Kalendar 1933-1934. Stuttgart: F.Enke. p. 232.
- ^ Wright, Claud William; with John Hannes Callomon and M.K. Howarth (1996). Roger L. Kaesler (ed.). Mollusca 4 Revised, Cretaceous Ammonoidea in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part L. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: The Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. p. 48.
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External links
- "Paleontology Hall". National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria.
- V Tzankov publications indexed by Google Scholar