# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ganco-cenov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:54:50.050Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ganco-cenov"
name: "Gančo Cěnov"
slug: "ganco-cenov"
description: "Gancho Tsenov (1870–1949) was a Bulgarian scholar who worked mainly in the field of Bulgarian history. He is considered to be the founder of the fringe theory on the autochthonous origin of the Bulgarian people, exhibited for the first time in a comprehensive form in 1910 in his capital work \"The Origins of Bulgarians and the Origin of the Bulgarian State and the Bulgarian Church\". Gancho Tsenov was translating sources from Bulgarian, German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish and Russian."
tagline: "Bulgarian historian (1870-1949)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%94-%D1%80_%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2_-_%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%BA%D0%B0.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1870-06-19"
deathDate: "1949-09-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.28
  momentum:             16.25
  historical:           5.069906666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gantscho_Zenow"
    title: "Gantscho Zenow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "جانيو كونوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Ганчо Ценов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gancho_Tsenov"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gancho_Tsenov"
    title: "Gancho Tsenov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%A6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1493681"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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