BULGARIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE PROBIOTIC STUDY: STAMEN GRIGOROV AND HIS FAMOUS DISCOVERY OF LACTOBACILLUS BULGARICUS

Abstract

The discoverer Dr Stamen Grigorov (1878-1945) studies the natural sciences in Montpellier (France) and afterwards – medicine in Geneva (Switzerland), where he graduated in 1905. After systematic examinations of the Bulgarian yoghourt in 1905, he isolated the agent of souring, which is called in his honour. He receives for this discovery an honorary diploma and awards by Geneva University and Luis Pastcur Institute. He declines offers about leader’s work in Geneva and Sao Paolo (Brazil), he returns to Bulgaria and works as a district and head doctor at hospital in Tran. During the Balkan and First World War conlributed to the struggle against the cholera and he is awarded with military cross and Golden Red Cross. He created in his antituberculosis vaccine that used at Carlo Forlanini Institute in Rome (1935).