# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ivan-buresh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:01:14.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ivan-buresh"
name: "Ivan Buresh"
slug: "ivan-buresh"
description: "Ivan Yosifov Buresh 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."
tagline: "Bulgarian scientist (1885-1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ivan_Buresh.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1885-12-15"
deathDate: "1980-08-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           35.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.802088
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Buresh"
    title: "Ivan Buresh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "ايڤان بوريش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%91%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88"
    title: "Иван Буреш"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Buresch"
    title: "Iwan Buresch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Buresh"
    title: "Ivan Buresh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D5%BE%D5%A1%D5%B6_%D4%B2%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%B7"
    title: "Իվան Բուրեշ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwan_Buresz"
    title: "Iwan Buresz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%88%2C_%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%99%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Буреш, Иван Йосифов"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6096013"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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