Angel Kantschew

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Angel Kantschew

Angel Kantschew Angelow ( Bulgarian Ангел Кънчев Ангелов ; born November 11, 1850 in Trjawna ; †  March 5, 1872 , suicide in Russe , now in Bulgaria ), known only as Angel Kantschew, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and freedom fighter.

Life

Angel Kantschew was born in the city of Trjawna, which lies in the middle of the Balkan Mountains and at that time belonged to the Ottoman Empire . The city was at that time one of the cultural centers of the Bulgarian National Revival . After finishing the cell school he went to the Danube city of Russe for further training . Because of his good academic performance, he received a scholarship for gifted students, which was advertised by distinguished Bulgarians around Wasil Aprilov and was able to attend the famous Bulgarian grammar school in Bolgrad in Bessarabia .

After finishing the Bolgrad Gymnasium, he enrolled in the Belgrade Military School . Shortly after settling in Belgrade, he contacted the Bulgarian emigrants around the revolutionary and ideologist Rakovsky . A little later he joined the Second Bulgarian Legion (1867), which pursued the goal of training young men militarily and, if the opportunity for an uprising arises, to send them from Serbia across the Balkan Mountains to Bulgaria to intervene in an outbreak of an uprising. Here he made friends with other revolutionaries and freedom fighters, including the apostle of freedom - Wasil Levski , Panajot Chitow and Stefan Karadscha . After the Serbian government had banned the Legion and arrested its members, Kanchev sat down with the other still free members to Romania , where he spoke to the Bulgarian population through articles in the newspaper Donau Morgen (Bulgarian "Дунавска зора" / Dunawska Zora) To fight the Ottoman-Turkish foreign ruler.

In 1870 and 1871 he studied at the agricultural and industrial school in Tábor, Czech Republic . After graduation, he returned to "subjugated" Bulgaria to work on a Tschiflik (from Turkish Çiftlik for " country house ") near Russe.

Returning to Bulgaria, he not only continued his ties to revolutionary emigration. In 1871 he was appointed by the Bulgarian Central Revolutionary Committee ( BRZK for short ) in Bucharest as Wasil Lewski's deputy and went underground. The end of August of the same year he met in Lovech with Levski, where the outbreak of an uprising was discussed. Kantschew was assigned the revolutionary activity in what is now northern Bulgaria, which played a central role in the organization's logistics. Especially for the revolutionary committees in the areas in the Balkan Mountains and south of the Balkan Mountains and the Thracian Plain , the supply of weapons and ammunition from Romania via northern Bulgaria was of vital importance.

In a very short time Kanchev succeeded in building revolutionary committees in the Danube Plain and tightening the structure of the organization. On March 5, 1872, he was discovered by the Ottoman border police while trying to cross the Ottoman-Romanian border near Russe. To avoid his arrest, Kantschew committed suicide. His death was a major setback for the organization, but the structures he had built continued to be used and played an important role in the preparations for the Stara Sagora Uprising (1875) and the April Uprising (1876). At the site of his suicide, a memorial was recently erected to commemorate his deeds.

Today the house where he was born has been converted into a museum. Many institutions in Bulgaria, such as the Angel Kantschew University in Rousse, bear his name.

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