Petko Slaveykov
Petko Slaveykov | |
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Born | |
Died | 1 July 1895 | (aged 67)
Resting place | Central Sofia Cemetery 42°42′47.5″N 023°20′02.4″E / 42.713194°N 23.334000°E |
Occupation(s) | Poet, Publicist, Politician |
Spouse | Irina Raykova |
Children | Pencho Slaveykov |
Petko Rachov Slaveykov (Bulgarian: Петко Рачов Славейков) (17 November 1827 OS – 1 July 1895 OS ) was a Bulgarian poet, publicist, politician and folklorist.[1]
Biography
Early years and educational activity
Slaveykov was born in
Slaveykov studied consecutively in Tarnovo,
Slaveykov became a teacher in his home town in 1843, but was expelled for the famous satirical poem Tarnovo became famous for renowned Greek bishops, and consecutively taught in various towns, including
Cultural activity and Istanbul period
Slaveykov engaged in important cultural and educational activity and had collected 2263 folk songs, sayings and proverbs by 1847. Nikola Mihaylovski introduced him to the Russian poets and writers of the time. From 1852, Slaveykov began to publish his first books: Smesena kitka, Pesnopoyka and Basnenik. He wrote the poem Boyka voyvoda in 1853 influenced by the revolutionary events surrounding the Crimean War (1853-1856), as well as many revolutionary songs. After the unsuccessful Uprising of Dyado Nikola in Tarnovo in 1856, Slaveykov concentrated his efforts in the awakening of national consciousness among Bulgarians. As a teacher in Targovishte he issued the satirical newspaper Gayda and after working in Varna for some time left for Istanbul, where he was invited in 1864 to edit a full Bulgarian translation of the Bible (in an east Bulgarian dialect) by the Bulgarian Bible Society. The entire translation was printed in Istanbul in 1871 and was of great importance for the establishment of the east Bulgarian vernacular as the common one.
In Istanbul Slaveykov issued the newspapers
Revolutionary and political activity
In 1873 Slaveykov wrote the well-known poem Izvorat na Belonogata ("The Spring of the White-Legged") and founded the Bulgarian high school in
After the
Because of his pronouncedly democratic ideas and his participation in the political struggles he was arrested, forbidden to teach and his pension was reduced. Deeply embittered, he died on 1 July 1895 in Sofia.
Slaveykov had a total of eight children, among them the politicians Ivan Slaveykov and Hristo Slaveykov, the publicist Racho Slaveykov and the fellow poet Pencho Slaveykov.
Works
Both in his original and imitative works Slaveykov further developed the Bulgarian language. He wrote patriotic songs and poems, and love and landscape lyric poetry under the influence of Russian poets
Honour
Slaveykov Peak in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Petko Slaveykov.
Notes
- ^ Bourchier, James David (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 784–786, see page 786:- "and Petko Slaveikoff (died 1895), whose poems, patriotic, satirical and erotic, moulded the modern poetical language and exercised a great influence over the people".
Further reading
- Black, Cyril E. (1943). The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Bulgaria. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. pp. 33, 46, 69, 83, 86–87, 94–98, 123, 129, 131, 134, 181, 186, 208, 218, 249, 254. Retrieved January 11, 2020 – via Internet Archive.
External links
- Bourchier, James David (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 784–786, see quote in "Notes" section above from page 786.
- Minchin, James George Cotton (1886). The Growth of Freedom in the Balkan Peninsula: Notes of a Traveller in Montenegro, Bosnia, Servia, Bulgaria, and Greece. London: John Murray. pp. 332–339. Retrieved 22 September 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- "Petko Slaveykov". Biographical sketch (in Bulgarian). Slovoto. Retrieved 2006-08-02.
- Gabrovsko-to Uchilishte i Negovy-tie Pŭrvi Popechiteli, (The Gabrovo School and Its First Trustees) From the Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection at the Library of Congress
- Smietka na dusheprikashtiky-tie V.E. Aprilova podadena N.N. Aprilovu, (Accounts of the executors of V.E. Aprilov submitted to N.N. Aprilov eng) From the Early Bulgarian Imprint Collection at the Library of Congress