astronomy

Ivan Buresh

Ivan Buresh is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ivan Buresh rather than just read about it. In short: Ivan Yosifov Buresh (Bulgarian: Иван Йосифов Буреш; 27 December 1885, Sofia, Bulgaria – 8 August 1980, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian zoologist and entomologist who has been dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology". He contributed to entomology, speleology, herpetology, and botany, and wrote over 200 scientific and popular science articles.

Key takeaways

Ivan Buresh belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Ivan Buresh to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Ivan Buresh from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Ivan Yosifov Buresh (Bulgarian: Иван Йосифов Буреш; 27 December 1885, Sofia, Bulgaria – 8 August 1980, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian zoologist and entomologist who has been dubbed "the patriarch of Bulgarian biology". He contributed to entomology, speleology, herpetology, and botany, and wrote over 200 scientific and popular science articles. Buresh served as curator and later director of the Royal Museum of Natural History, became a full member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1929, and led its Institute of Zoology from 1947 to 1959.

Early life and education Ivan Buresh was born in Sofia, the capital of the Principality of Bulgaria, to the family of Czech zincographer and photographer Josef Bureš who had settled in Bulgaria after the Liberation in 1878. Buresh finished high school in Sofia and studied natural science at Charles University in Prague and Sofia University. He graduated in 1909 and continued his post-graduate education at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München under world-famous zoologist Richard Hertwig and Franz Theodor Doflein.

Career Buresh took an interest in zoology in his school years. He published his first article on that subject in 1905; his body of work includes over 200 scientific and popular science articles. Although his main area of research was entomology, he also contributed to Bulgarian spelaeology, herpetology and botany. He is responsible for the planting of cacti in St. Thomas Island, one of the scant places in Bulgaria where the plants grow. From 1914 on, Buresh was curator of the Royal Museum of Natural History. In 1918, he was promoted to director of the Royal Institutes of Natural Science, which included the Royal Museum of Natural History, the Sofia Zoo and the Botanical Garden, among other institutions. He held that post until 1946. In 1926, he was admitted to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a corresponding member; in 1929, he became a full academic member. From 1947 until his retirement in 1959, Buresh headed the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Zoology. Buresh died in Sofia in 1980, aged 94. Despite his close ties to both Tsar Ferdinand and Tsar Boris III, Buresh was never actively engaged in politics.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ivan Buresh

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ivan Buresh claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Ivan Buresh before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ivan Buresh ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ivan Buresh

In research: Ivan Buresh appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ivan Buresh in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ivan Buresh is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1885 births, 1980 deaths, 20th-century Bulgarian zoologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Ivan Buresh outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Ivan Buresh in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Ivan Buresh means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Ivan Buresh out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

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Why does Ivan Buresh matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Ivan Buresh?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Ivan Buresh.