Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov(Bulgarian:Любен Стойчев Каравелов) (c. 1834 – 21 January 1879) was aBulgarianwriter and an important figure of theBulgarian National Revival.[1][2]
Lyuben Karavelov Любен Каравелов | |
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| Born | Lyuben Stoychev Karavelov 1834 |
| Died | 21 January 1879 (aged 45) |
| Occupation(s) | Revolutionary,Journalist,Poet |
| Known for | Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee |
Karavelov was born inKoprivshtitsa.He began his education in achurch school,but in 1850 he moved to the school ofNayden GerovinPlovdiv.He was then sent by his father to study in a Greek school for two years, before transferring to a Bulgarian school, where he also studiedRussian literature.He moved toOdrinfor an apprenticeship, but he soon came back to Koprivshtitsa and was sent toConstantinoplein 1856. There he developed a strong interest in politics and theCrimean War.At the same time, he studied the culture andethnographyof the region.
In 1857, Karavelov enrolled in the Faculty of History and Philology at theUniversity of Moscow,where he fell under the influence of Russian revolutionary democrats, was placed under police surveillance in 1859, and took part in student riots in 1861. With a group of other young Bulgarian student radicals, he published a journal and started writing poetry and long short stories in Bulgarian, and scholarly publications on Bulgarian ethnography and journalism in Russian. In 1867 he went toBelgradeas a correspondent for Russian newspapers and started publishing prose and journalism in Serbian. There he marriedNatalija Petrović,a Serbian activist and writer. In 1868 he was forced to move toNovi Sad,Austria-Hungary,because of his contacts with the Serb opposition (led bySvetozar Marković). Karavelov was arrested and spent time in aBudapestprison for alleged participation in a conspiracy. In 1869 he settled inBucharest,intending to start his own newspaper and to cooperate with the newly foundedBulgarian Scholarly Society(the futureBulgarian Academy of Sciences).
At his first newspaperSvoboda(Freedom) in Bucharest (1869–1873), he worked and became friends with poet and revolutionaryHristo Botevwho devoted a poem to him. In 1870, Karavelov was elected chairman of theBulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee,where he worked withVasil Levski,the leader of theInternal Revolutionary Organization;he shared Levski's ideas of a democratic republic as the goal of the national revolution. Karavelov admired the political system ofSwitzerland(which he believed was a good model for the ethnically diverse Balkans) and the United States; he praised the American public education system, as well as the emancipated (in his opinion) status of American women.
In 1873–1874, Karavelov and Botev published a second newspaper,Nezavisimost(Independence). Although Karavelov, the older of the two, was the recognized master, both of them were very good professional journalists, setting high standards for Bulgarian language and literature. (Sometimes it was hard to know who exactly authored the many unsigned materials.) Following the capture and execution of Levski in 1873, though, the disheartened Karavelov gradually abandoned his revolutionary zeal, attracting Botev's severe criticism, and started publishing a newZnanie(Knowledge) journal and popular science books.
Karavelov died inRoussein 1879, soon after theliberation of Bulgaria.
Karavelov's works include the short novelsOld Time Bulgarians(Bulgarian:„Българи от старо време “;Bulgari ot staro vreme,andMommy's Boy(Bulgarian:„Мамино детенце “;Mamino detentse), considered among the first original Bulgarian novels. His younger brotherPetkowas a prominent figure inBulgaria's political life in the late nineteenth century.
Notes
edit- ^Bourchier, James David(1911)..InChisholm, Hugh(ed.).Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 784–786, see final para.
Among the writers of the literary renaissance were.....Liuben Karaveloff (1837–1879), journalist and novelist
- ^Black, Cyril E. (1943).The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Bulgaria.Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp.39-43.RetrievedJune 18,2021– viaInternet Archive.
References
edit- Бакалов, Георги; Милен Куманов (2003). "Каравелов, Любен Стойчев (ок. 1834-21.I.1879)".Електронно издание "История на България"(in Bulgarian). София: Труд, Сирма.ISBN954528613X.
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