Christo Beltschew

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Christo Beltschew

Christo Mintschew Beltschew (also written Hristo Minchev Belchev , Bulgarian Христо Минчев Белчев ) (* 1857 Tarnowo ; † March 27, 1891 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian poet and politician of the “ People's Liberal Party ” and finance minister in the cabinet of Stefan Stambolow . Christo Belschew was married to the poet Mara Beltschewa .

Christo Beltschew was born in 1857 in the town of Tarnovo (now Veliko Tarnovo ) in the Balkan Mountains . He finished the secular elementary school in his hometown in 1869 and attended grammar school in Zagreb from 1872 to 1876 . Beltschew then published a collection of poems in Croatian in Zagreb. In 1877 he enrolled at the University of Zagreb, but returned after the liberation of Bulgaria from the "Ottoman-Turkish yoke" and worked between 1878 and 1881 as a civil servant in Sevlievo , Tarnowo and Sofia . In 1881 he enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris , where he studied economics until 1884 with a grant from the Bulgarian government. After successfully completing his studies, he returned to Bulgaria, where he worked in the Ministry of Finance from 1885.

In 1890 Beltschew became finance minister in the government of his friend Stambolov. Because Stambolov took a hard hand against his political opponents, several groups tried to carry out an assassination attempt on him or to have him killed by a contract killer. In one of these attempts in 1891 Bulgarian nationalists from Macedonia under the leadership of Naum Tyufektschiev accidentally murdered Beltschew.

In 1905, part of the works of Christo Beltschew and Selected Essays (Bulgarian Избрани Съчинения) were published by Pecho Slaveykov. In his literary works he was influenced by Heinrich Heine .

The assassination attempt and its effects on domestic politics

Christo Beltschew died at the age of 34 in the Sofioter Stadtgarten shortly after speaking to Stefan Stambolow in a café. The assassins attacked both, but could only murder Beltschew. In the process that followed, four death sentences were pronounced, including one for the poet and journalist Svetoslav Milarov. The death sentences are regarded as unfounded in historical studies.

However, the alleged instigator was the pro-Russian politician Petko Karawelow , who was arrested. Another verdict was passed against the leader of the Macedonian movement in Bulgaria, Trajko Kitanchev . Among the other 250 arrested were senior officials from Macedonian Bulgarian organizations, including Damjan Gruew and Jane Sandanski , as well as pro-Russian politicians.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ БОРИС АНГЕЛОВ ДЕБАТЪТ СЛАВЕЙКОВ - ВАЗОВ ИЛИ ИДЕОЛОГЪТ НА "МИСЪЛ" СРЕЩУ ИДЕОЛОГЪТ НААЦИЯТА
  2. ↑ a b c История на България , С., 1991, издателство на Българската академия на науките , т. 7, стр. 261, 266, 438
  3. ↑ Ivan Bogdanow: Критика и антикритика: литературни въпроси , Народна просвета, 1967 p. 221

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SURNAME Beltschew, Christ
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Belchev, Hristo Minchev; Христо Минчев Белчев (Bulgarian spelling); Beltschew, Christo Minchev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician and finance minister
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Veliko Tarnovo
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1891
Place of death Sofia