Alexander Exarch
Alexander Exarch Александър Стоилов Боев AlexanderStoilov Boev | |
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Born | 1810 |
Died | 27 September 1891 | (aged 80–81)
Alexander Exarch (Bulgarian: Александър Екзарх, 1810 – 27 September 1891) was a Bulgarian revivalist, publicist and journalist, active participant in the struggle for an independent Bulgarian Exarchate.
It comes from a wealthy family. He studied in Bucharest, Budapest, Munich. From 1836 he was in Paris, where he first studied mathematics, and later, with Ottoman state scholarship - medicine (1839 - 1841).
In 1841, he accompanied as a translator Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, sent by the French government to investigate the consequences of the Niš rebellion (1841). Blanqui reflects it in his diary as Bulgarian, pointing to Ni�� as the capital of Bulgaria. He strongly opposes the insinuation of Ioannis Kolettis (at that time the Greek ambassador to Paris) that the uprising was Greek. In 1842 - 1846, he sent several memoirs (memos) to the Western European governments to improve the situation of the Bulgarians.[1]
With financial assistance from Russia, he published in Constantinople the Bulgarian „Constantinople newspaper” (1848 - 1862), whose editor-in-chief was between 1850 and 1860.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria he was twice a candidate for Head of State (Prince) of Bulgaria (1879, 1886).[2]
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- Bulgarian activists
- Diplomats of the Ottoman Empire
- Bulgarian journalists
- 1810 births
- 1891 deaths
- People from Stara Zagora