Lyubomir Miletich was born in
Štip, today in
North Macedonia, to a Bulgarian family originally from
Edirne (Odrin) in modern
Eastern Thrace,
Turkey. His great-grandfather
voivode Mile had left Edirne and settled in the
Austrian
Banat in the early 19th century, where Lyubomir's grandfather Simo was born. Simo had two sons,
Svetozar and
Đorđe, Lyubomir's father, who, after briefly living in
Bosnia and
North Africa, returned to his homeland to become a teacher in
Macedonia and northwestern Bulgaria in 1859. Miletich's mother, Evka Popdaova, was born in
Veles, Macedonia. Miletich studied in
Sofia and
Novi Sad, but finished school in the
Zagreb Secondary School for Classical Education in 1882 and graduated in
Slavistics from the
University of Zagreb and
Charles University in Prague, where he was taught by
Jan Gebauer. Miletich participated in the foundation of
Sofia University in 1888. He became a
Ph.D. of philology and Slavic philology of the University of Zagreb in July 1889. Miletich become the
dean of the Faculty of History and Philology of
University of Sofia during the 1903–04 academic year. During the 1900–01 and 1921–22, he was the
rector of the University. Since 1898, Miletich was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, which he presided from 1926 until his death. Similarly, he was the chairman of the Bulgarian
Macedonian Scientific Institute from 1927 to his death. Miletich was a doctor
honoris causa of the
Kharkiv University, a corresponding member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences, as well of the
Russian Historical Society, the
Polish Academy of Learning, the
South Slavic Academy of Sciences and Arts, the
Czech Academy of Sciences, the Czech Scientific Society and the Czech Ethnographic Society, the Hungarian Ethnographic Society and the Russian Archaeological Institute. Miletich died in Sofia on 1 June 1937. ==Honours==