Macedonian Scientific Institute and its founders – intellectual inheritors of the Bulgarian secondary schools in Salonica

The article analyses biographic evidence on the educational formation and professional activity of all the fifty two founders of the Macedonian Scientific Institute in 1923 in view of their interconnectedness with Salonica (Thessaloniki). According to the available data over half of them, 27 out of 52, were directly associated with Bulgarian educational and academic institutions that functioned in the city until 1913. Prosopographical analysis of that specific key group is one of the proofs that Macedonian Scientific Institute could be considered as an intellectual inheritor that directly continued the traditions and spirit of the Bulgarian secondary schools (gymnasiums) in Salonica.