Vasil Aprilov
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| Vasil Aprilov | |
| Born | 21 July 1789 Gabrovo |
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| Died | 2 October 1847 (aged 58) Galaţi, Moldavia (present-day 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 Braşov 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 left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo. This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the Bell-Lancaster method[1]. The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the Ottoman empire.
Aprilov Point on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Vasil Aprilov.
[edit] References
- ^ Crampton, Richard J. (1997). A Concise History of Bulgaria. Cambridge University Press, 60-62. ISBN ISBN 052156719X.
