Себастиан дьо Бросар (1655–1730) и Неофит Рилски (1793–1881): духовници, ерудити, книжовници, учители, просветители, музиканти, лексикографи
Sébastien de Brossard (1655-1730) and Neophit Rilski (1793-1881): Ecclesiastics, Erudites, Scholars, Teachers, Educators, Musicians, Lexicographers

Summary/Abstract: The author makes interesting parallels between Sébastien de Brossard (1655- 1730) and Neophit Rilski (1793-1881) - two so different and at the same time somehow similar exceptional individuals, who have lived in two hard to compare periods and cultures. Sébastien de Brossard was a multifaceted personality: an ecclesiastic (vicar, chaplain, canonic) and a musician (artist, theorist, composer, teacher, chronicler, lexicographer, collector of editions and manuscripts of music scores and treatises), a bibliophile and a bibliographer. The de Brossard’s era was the era of French Classicism – not only in theater, but in poetry, architecture, painting, with which the art of music was so closely linked. Neophit Rilski was an exceptional person with an encyclopedic mind, a public figure with multiple achievements as an ecclesiastic and a secular scholar simultaneously, a preacher and an educator, a teacher, a writer, a linguist, a writer, a translator, a lexicographer, a singer, a poet, a painter, a historian, a geographer, an ethnographer, a numismatist, an astronomer, a meteorologist, a healer… Neophit was a teacher at the newly opened in Gabrovo in 1835 first Neo-Bulgarian democratic secular school (in English model), intended for poor children. Dozens of scientists in France and around the world have dedicated years of research devoted to the work of de Brossard. In contrast, the life-work of Neophit Rilski – his Lexicon, on which he had spent six decades remains unpublished as well as his vast Psaltikia. The life-work of the Frenchman de Brossard is of an international significance, but in one area of culture. The life-work of the Bulgarian Neophit Rilski is with an enormous and fundamental importance for the Bulgarian education system, national awareness and culture.

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