Stoyan Nikolov Mihaylovski (Bulgarian : Стоян Николов Михайловски; 7 January 1856 – 3 August 1927) was a Bulgarian writer and social figure.
Bulgarian, is an Indo-European language and a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic language family.
Bulgarians are a South Slavic ethnic group who are native to Bulgaria and its neighboring regions.
Mihaylovski was born to a prominent Bulgarian National Revival family in Elena as the son of Nikola Mihaylovski and the nephew of religious leader Stoyan Mihaylovski, better known as Ilarion Makariopolski. [1] Having begun his education in Tarnovo in 1865–1868, he finished the Galatasaray High School in the Ottoman capital Istanbul in 1872. [1] At Galatasaray, Mihaylovski was a classmate of Konstantin Velichkov. From 1872 to 1874, Mihaylovski was a teacher in Dojran, Macedonia; [1] in 1875, he travelled to France to study law at the University of Aix [2] in Aix-en-Provence. [3]
The Bulgarian National Revival, sometimes called the Bulgarian Renaissance, was a period of socio-economic development and national integration among Bulgarian people under Ottoman rule. It is commonly accepted to have started with the historical book, Istoriya Slavyanobolgarskaya, written in 1762 by Paisius, a Bulgarian monk of the Hilandar monastery at Mount Athos, and lasted until the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.
Elena is a Bulgarian town in the central Stara Planina mountain in Veliko Tarnovo Province, located 42 km southeast of Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Elena Municipality. The area is also a mountain resort, known for the typical local cuisine. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 5,665 inhabitants. It forms a terminal for the Gorna Oryahovitsa-Elena railway line.
Veliko Tarnovo is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province.
After the Liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, Mihaylovski worked as a lawyer and judge in the Principality of Bulgaria. [1] From 1878 to 1879 he was member of the Svishtov legal council. In 1880, he was editor-in-chief of the Plovdiv-based Popular Voice newspaper; in the same year, he headed a department of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [3]
In Bulgarian historiography, the liberation of Bulgaria refers to those events of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) that led to the re-establishment of the Bulgarian state under the Treaty of San Stefano of 3 March 1878.
The Principality of Bulgaria was a de facto independent, and de jure vassal state under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire. It was established by the Treaty of Berlin in 1878.
Svishtov is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svishtov Municipality. With a population of 35,923 inhabitants, as of December 2009, the town is the second-largest in the province after the city of Veliko Tarnovo and before Gorna Oryahovitsa.
In 1883, Mihaylovski graduated in law in France and was appointed chief secretary of the Ministry of Justice, a post he held until 1884. In 1887, he was member of the Rousse court of appeal and in 1889 he worked as a teacher of French at the Rousse men's high school. From 1892 to 1894 and from 1897 to 1899, he was extracurricular teacher of French at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of History and Philology of Sofia University respectively. From 1895 to 1899, he was reader of literary history at the same university. In 1882, he was admitted to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences as a correspondent member; he was promoted to full member in 1898. [1] [3]
Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria.
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the National Academy of Bulgaria, established in 1869. The Academy, located in Sofia, is autonomous and has a Society of Academicians, Correspondent Members and Foreign Members. It publishes and circulates different scientific works, encyclopedias, dictionaries and journals, and runs its own publishing house.
From 1901 to 1903, Mihaylovski presided the Supreme Macedonian–Adrianopolitan Committee, a Sofia-based organization seeking the autonomy of Macedonia and Thrace. He was member of the National Assembly of Bulgaria in 1886–1887, 1894–1896 and 1903–1908. Following a public scandal in 1904, he was suspended for an article criticizing Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. In 1905, he retired from his active social activities. [1] Mihaylovski died in Sofia in 1927. [3]
Thrace is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe, now split between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south and the Black Sea to the east. It comprises southeastern Bulgaria, northeastern Greece and the European part of Turkey.
Mihaylovski's literary activity dates back to 1872 and the Istanbul-based Chitalishte magazine. His works fall into a variety of genres and spans fables, epigrams, maxims, parodies, poems and dramas. His fables, such as Eagle and Snail, Owl and Firefly, Axe and Pickaxe, are among Bulgarian literature's classics. A leading motive in his entire body of work is the perpetual unattainability of freedom and the triumph of mediocrity and oppression. [3]
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral lesson, which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim or saying.
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek: ἐπίγραμμα epigramma "inscription" from ἐπιγράφειν epigraphein "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two millennia.
A maxim is a concise expression of a fundamental moral rule or principle, whether considered as objective or subjective contingent on one's philosophy. A maxim is often pedagogical and motivates specific actions. The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy defines it as:
Generally any simple and memorable rule or guide for living; for example, 'neither a borrower nor a lender be'. Tennyson speaks of 'a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart, and maxims have generally been associated with a 'folksy' or 'copy-book' approach to morality.
Mihaylovski is popular for authoring the anthem of Bulgarian culture and education, the song Cyril and Methodius (better with its first stanza, March Ahead, O Revived People), written in Rousse in 1882 and published in the Thought magazine. [1] [4] The music to the anthem was composed by Lyubomir Pipkov in 1901 on the eve of 24 May, the feast day of Bulgarian culture. [5]
Galatasaray High School is a high school in Turkey. Established in 1481, it is the oldest high school in Turkey and the second-oldest Turkish educational institution after Istanbul University, which was established in 1453. Being an Anatolian High School, access to the school is open to students with a high Nationwide High School Entrance score. Education consists of a blend of Turkish and French curricula and is provided in both languages.
Stoyan Kolev Grebovic is a former Bulgarian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is currently a goalkeeper coach at Lokomotiv Plovdiv, but had a short stint as interim manager between 12–19 April 2017 following the resignation of Eduard Eranosyan.
Stoyan Alexandrov is a Bulgarian economist, and former Minister of Finance under Prime Minister Lyuben Berov. A graduate of the Svishtov Academy of Economics, he is the Former President of the Directors' Council and Chief Executive Director of the CCB and President of the Governing Council of the Association of Commerce Banks.
Stoyan Petrov Danev was a leading Bulgarian liberal politician and twice Prime Minister.
Zahariy Stoyanov, born Dzhendo Stoyanov Dzhedev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary, writer, and historian.
Hilarion of Makariopolis was a 19th-century Bulgarian cleric and one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church.
Nikolov, feminine Nikolova, is a Bulgarian patronymic and family name, derived from the personal name Nikola and may refer to:
Nikola Tihov Obretenov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, one of the combatants for the liberation of Bulgaria, and a participant in the Stara Zagora Uprising and the April Uprising. His book "Memories About Bulgarian Uprisings" was published posthumously and is a primary source of historical information about those events.
Stoyan Yankoulov, also known as Stundzhi, is one of Bulgaria's most popular and renowned drummers and percussionists. Yankoulov formed the duo Elitsa & Stoyan to represent Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, and once again they represented Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in Malmö.
Konstantin Velichkov was a Bulgarian writer and public figure.
Stoyan Iliev Stoyanov was the highest scoring Bulgarian fighter ace of the Royal Bulgarian Air Force in World War II with 15 victories.
Dobri Popov Voynikov was a Bulgarian teacher, playwright and journalist of the Bulgarian National Revival. He is regarded as the father of modern Bulgarian theatre and the first Bulgarian producer. Voynikov was among the founders of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Simeon Traychev Radev was a Bulgarian writer, journalist, diplomat and historian, most famous for his three-volume book The Builders of Modern Bulgaria.
Professor Nikola Iliev Milev (1881–1925) was a Bulgarian historian, publicist, public figure, diplomat, and a participant in the Macedonian revolutionary movement.
Georgi Dimitrov Izmirliev, nicknamed Makedoncheto, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and public figure. A participant in the anti-Ottoman April Uprising of 1876, he was an assistant to Stefan Stambolov and a military commander of the Tarnovo revolutionary district.
Andrew Petkov was the diocesan prelate of the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the USA, Canada and Australia with the title of "Metropolitan of New York" during the years 1947 to 1972.
Stoyan Gadev was a Bulgarian stage and film actor born in 1931, deceased in 1999.
Boris Nikolov or Boris Nikolof, nicknamed The Bear, was a Bulgarian footballer and football manager. In the inceptive years of leading Turkish football club Galatasaray S.K., which he co-founded, Nikolov was both the club's first manager and first captain.
Stojan Vezenkov or Stojan Vezenković ; ; was a Macedonian Bulgarian builder and stonemason, who later became a pan-Slavic agent and organizer of anti-Ottoman resistance on the Balkans.
The Anthem of the Bulgarian Education, also known as "Forward, Revived Peoples" is the official anthem of the Saints Cyril and Methodius' Day in Bulgaria. The lyric of the song was based on a poem by Stoyan Mihaylovski.
