After years of discussions in the Academic world, corrections and complements a draft law was prepared for the University, and was approved on the 23rd of January, 1904, with a decree of the Ministry Council. The "University law" renames the National school of higher education in Sofia into university. Under article 7 the names of the faculties and the departments are defined. Within the boundaries of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics for the first time, with a normative act, exist and the department of geology and paleontology, which in its nearly à century of existence was playing a major role in the Bulgarian geological education and science even before it's official separation. The prehistory of the department begins in the 1891-1892 school year, when in the Sofia's School of higher education, a department of natural history is opened, and the exceptional lecturer dr. Bone Baev reads his first geology lectures. Withthis general course are laid the basis of all future readings in the newly formed school of higher education.

   Georgi Nikolov Zlatarski was born on the 25th of January, 1854 in Veliko Turnovo. He graduated high school in his native town and then continued his studies in the Imperial lyceum in Tsarigrad and in a school in Zagreb. From 1876, he was a student in the first natural history alumni in the Zagreb university where he graduated (1880).

   Mr. Zlatarski came to the Bulgarian school of higher education with à considerable amount of knowledge, experience and scientific achievements. As a mineralogist in the Ministry of finances (1880), as a director of the geological bureau … Ministry of commerce and agriculture (1893), he didn't limit himself only to the administrative obligations, but also implements intense scientific experimental work. As a result of his work he published 12 scientific articles, with which he became the originator of the Bulgarian geological literature. He also published 2 geological maps of Bulgaria with the following scales: 1:500 000 and 1:750 000. His knowledge is expanded with the numerous official trips, work in libraries and museums in Austria and England and his participation in IV International Geology Congress in London (1888). Particularly beneficial was his work with Frantz Tula, who visits often Bulgaria and his friendship and cooperative work with Konstantin Irechek