Marco Constantinov Mincoff, better known as Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) was a Bulgarian scholar on Shakespeare and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia. Marco Mincoff was born on 15 July 1909 O.S. (28 July 1909 N.S.) in Chamkorya (now Samokov, Bulgaria) in the family of the Bulgarian diplomat Constantin Mincoff and his English wife Mary de: Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage, who was a philologist and folk songs collector of her own right. With a Humboldt grant he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Berlin in 1933. From 1951 to 1974 he was head of the department o