KONSTANTİN İREÇEK’İN BULGARLARIN TARİHİ ADLI ESERİNE GÖRE TUNA BULGARLARI’NIN HRİSTİYANLIĞI KABULÜ
THE CONVERSION OF THE DANUBE BULGARIANS TO CHRISTIANITY ACCORDING TO THE HISTORY OF THE BULGARIANS BY KONSTANTIN JIREČEK

Summary/Abstract: Konstantin Josef Jireček is a Czech historian, diplomat and Slavist. Jireček, who studied history and philology, became interested in the Slavic peoples in the Balkans and began to write upon this subject. His grandfather, the famous Slavist Pavel Josef Šafárik, had a great influence on the shaping of Jireček’s ideas. His work titled History of the Bulgarians, which he prepared as a doctoral thesis and published later, is the first academic work that deals with Bulgarian history holistically. This work, which will be referenced by Bulgarian historiography for many years, has been handled from a Slavic perspective. Although the scientific reality is different, he based the origin of the Bulgarians on the Slavs and directed the generations to come after him to this understanding. In our study, the part of the conversion of Bulgarians to Christianity in Jireček’s History of the Bulgarians is discussed. It is noteworthy that the subject in Jireček’s work is handled with a Slavic-centered approach. In addition, in this study, the subject of the Bulgarians’ acceptance of Christianity has been tried to be discussed by giving other sources in order to compare with Jireček’s work.

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