Despess, Vangelia (village Galishta, Kostur, 16. 1941) – Philologist, scientific advisor at the Institute of Old Slavic Culture from Prilep (retired). As a child-fugely ten years lived in Czech (1948-1958), where he finished elementary education and classical gymnasium. After bringing in Skopje (1958), he graduated from the Department of Slavistics at the Faculty of Philology in Skopje (1963). At the same faculty mastered on the topic “The Lexica of the Good Gospel” (1973), and then received a PhD in the topic “South Slav Full Adap” (1981). A long time was an assistant, scientific and senior scientific associate at the Institute of Macedonian Language in Skopje (1964-1986), followed by scientific advisor (1986-2003) and director (1992-2001) at the Institute of Old Slavic Culture in Prilep. For many years, he was a lecturer at the Macedonian language seminar, literature and culture organized by the University “St. Cyril and Methodius “in Skopje, and a year and a Macedonian language lecturer at the summer school at the University of Zagreb. He was a member of the Macedonian Slavic Committee (1983-1993), a member of the Balkan Council of MANU and a member of the Editorial Statement of the SP. “Balcanovica”. He has published about 160 scientific and professional papers, of which 15 monographs (independently or as co-author). BIB.: The Lexic of the Good Gospel, “Macedonian, 1, Skopje, 1977, 5-96; Glossary of Macedonian Church Slavic texts, probation of Europe, Skopje, 1978 (with co-authors); Macedonian written monuments in Leningrad libraries, “Macedonian,” 3, Skopje, 1984, 3-61; Russian-Macedonian Kinger, Skopje, 1992; Index to the dictionary of Macedonian Bible manuscripts, “Macedonian, 4, Skopje, 1985, 31-460 (co-author and editor); Macedonian medieval manuscripts, and selection, Prilep, 1988 (with co-author); Grigorovichevo Gospel no. 9, Macedonian medieval manuscripts, ⅱ, Prilep, 1988; Ru-Macedonian Attendance, Skopje, 1992; Modoxyr’s Gospel, t. Ⅱ, Macedonian medieval manuscripts, ⅲ, Skopje-Prilep, 1992 (with co-author); Karpin Gospel, Macedonian medieval manuscripts, IV, Prilep – Skopje, 1995 (editor and co-author); Studies for Macedonian medieval lexica, Skopje-Prilep, 1997; Old Slavic Macedonian vocabulary with Greek parallels (editor and co-author with Sonja Novotnit, Christmas tree-ulcer and Maria Chicheva – Aleksic), Prilep-Skopje, 1999; Studies for the Macedonian medieval literary heritage, Prilep-Skopje, 2000; Feverish EUhoglium, Macedonian medieval manuscripts, ⅵ, Prilep, 2000 (editor and co-author); Macedonian medieval manuscripts, selection, ⅱ, Prilep-Skopje, 2003; Prologue no. 72, Macedonian medieval manuscripts, ⅷ, Prilep-Skopje, 2006 (editor and co-author). S. Ml. M. Despotov, carving in the yen-mosque in Debar (ⅹⅰⅹ c.)
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