[1] Vladimir Georgiev was born in the Bulgarian village of Gabare [bg], near Byala Slatina and graduated in philology at Sofia University in 1930.

Director of the Institute for Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1951–1957), Secretary of the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Art Studies (1956–1963), Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences (1959–1972), Director of the United Center for Language and Literature (from 1972).

[3] Based on a new application of comparative method, he established the existence of a Pre-Greek Indo-European language, which he called "Pelasgian".

He made multiple contributions to the field of Thracology, including a linguistic interpretation of an inscription discovered at the village of Kyolmen in the Shoumen district of northeastern Bulgaria.

[7][8] In the 1960s, Georgiev examined the names of the twenty-six largest rivers of central and eastern Europe.