Hristo Smolenov

Hristo Smolenov
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hristo Smolenov
Born	1954 (age 69–70) Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nationality	Bulgarian
Alma mater	Moscow State University University of Montreal Catholic University of America
Known for	The Lost Aurolithic Civilization Varna Civilization
Scientific career
Fields	Logics
Institutions	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Website	smolenov.com

Hristo Smolenov is a Bulgarian scientist, logician and antiterrorism expert, born 1954 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. In 2007 was revealed as associated with the communist secret services.^[1]

Academic career

After graduating from the Moscow State University he became a guest professor at the University of Montreal and at the Catholic University of America in Washington. He is an associate professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.^[2][3] As a specialist in logic and methodology of science he has long been involved in creative solutions in non-standard situations.

Books and publications

• Codes in Space, 2016
• Zagora - Varna - the hidden super-culture, 2012
• The Lost Aurolithic Civilization? Codes from a Black Sea Atlantis, 2010
• Self-Producing Terror, 2005
• The Market Life of Global Terrorism, 2004
• The Cannibals Paradox: Global Terrorism and Hyper-Capital, 2003
• Struktur und Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Theorien: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie aus der bulgarischen Forschung, 1990^[4]
• Zeno's paradoxes and temporal becoming in dialectical atomism, 1984^[5]
• Truthfulness and non-trivial contradiction, 1984^[6]

Political career

Smolenov initiated the creation of Independent Society of Ecoglasnost in 1988,^[7] which later became a founding member of the umbrella opposition movement Union of Democratic Forces. Between 1995-1997 he was the Parliamentary Secretary of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense. In 1999 Smolenov was elected for MP in the 38th Bulgarian National Assembly.^[8]

Awards and achievements

In 2017 Smolenov was honored with the title Honorary Professor of the Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy.^[9]

References

1. ""Агенти на ДС продължават да извират от парламента", "Млади учени се "обесиха" заради липсата на пари"". 5 September 2007.
2. About Hristo Smolenov
3. "Terrorism has made European society sick". www.europost.bg. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
4. Poser, Hans (1990-03-01). "Struktur und Dynamik wissenschaftlicher Theorien: Beiträge zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Wissenschaftstheorie aus der bulgarischen Forschung . Christfried Tögel, Hristo Smolenov, Anguel Stefanov". Isis. 81 (1): 154–155. doi:10.1086/355322. ISSN 0021-1753.
5. Smolenov, Hristo (1984). "Zeno's Paradoxes and Temporal Becoming in Dialectical Atomism". Studia Logica. 43 (1–2): 169–180. doi:10.1007/BF00935748. S2CID 122988299.
6. Smolenov, Hristo (1984). "Truthfulness and Non-Trivial Contradiction". Bulletin of the Section of Logic. 13 (3): 144–150.
7. OMDA. "Smolenov biography (Bulgarian)". old.omda.bg. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
8. "Bulgarian National Assembly results". www.online.bg. Archived from the original on 2018-01-01. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
9. "Honorary Professor award (in Bulgarian)". Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (in Bulgarian). Archived from the original on 2020-10-22. Retrieved 2018-01-01.