Vasil Aprilov
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Born | 21 July 1789 Gabrovo |
Died | 2 October 1847 Galatz, today in Romania |
Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov (Bulgarian: Васил Евстатиев Априлов) (21 July 1789 - 2 October 1847) was a Bulgarian educator. He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Brashov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna. After 1811 he was a merchant in Odessa. He initially participated in the Greek revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the Bulgarian Renaissance. He gathered Bulgarian folk songs. In his will he leaves a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo.