# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-fol
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:19:45.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-fol"
name: "Alexander Fol"
slug: "alexander-fol"
description: "Alexander Fol was a Bulgarian historian and Thracologist. In 1957, he studied history at the University of St. Kliment Ohridski in Sofia and earned a PhD in 1966. He worked as a university lecturer from 1972 and became a professor in 1975. From 1980 to 1986, he served as Minister of Culture and Education of Republic of Bulgaria. His research interests lay in classical Greek and Roman history, the cultural history of southeast Europe and Asia Minor, and Indo-European studies. He is best known for his contributions to Thracology."
tagline: "Bulgarian historian (1933-2006)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Monument_%C3%A0_Alexander_Fol.JPG/330px-Monument_%C3%A0_Alexander_Fol.JPG"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-07-03"
deathDate: "2006-03-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.35
  momentum:             16
  historical:           6.136105333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fol"
    title: "Alexander Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%84"
    title: "الكسندر فول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8A%D1%80_%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BB"
    title: "Александър Фол"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandar_Fol"
    title: "Alexandar Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar_Fol"
    title: "Aleksandar Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fol"
    title: "Alexander Fol"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandyr_Fo%C5%82"
    title: "Aleksandyr Foł"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q319471"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump