Henrieta Todorova

Henrieta Todorova (25 February 1933 – 12 April 2015) was a Bulgarian archaeologist and professor. She studied the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe. She worked at the Archaeological Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

She was a corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, a member of the German Archaeological Institute, and a foreign member of the Leibniz Society in Berlin.

 Life 
Todorova was born in Sofia. Her father was German and her mother was Bulgarian. After World War II, she changed her family name to a Bulgarian form.

She studied history and philosophy. In 1954 she graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1964 she earned a doctorate in archaeology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Nitra.

From 1967 she worked at the Archaeological Institute in Sofia. In 1978 she became a professor.

Todorova died in 2015 at the age of 82. She was cremated, and part of her ashes were scattered at Durankulak.

 Work 
Todorova wrote 18 books and more than 150 articles. She studied the Neolithic, Eneolithic, and Bronze Age. Her work also included early metal use and prehistoric societies.

She played an important role in the study of the Durankulak archaeological site.

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Category:Bulgarian people