Christo Stoyanov

Christo Stojanow, dating unknown

Christo Todorow Stojanow ( Bulgarian Христо Тодоров Стоянов ) (* 1842 in Sofia ; † 19 June ^July / 1 July  1895 ^greg. There) was a Bulgarian lawyer and politician. He was twice President of the Bulgarian Supreme Court and several short-term ministers in various governments in his country.

Life and work

After attending school in Sofia, Stoyanov first completed his education at the gymnasium in Odessa from 1860 to 1863 and worked as a teacher in Sofia in 1863/64 before studying law at Moscow University until 1868 . After his return he worked as a teacher or school principal in various cities in Bulgaria and took part in the church political disputes about the establishment of an independent Bulgarian exarchate . In 1876 he went to Russia to organize volunteer departments for the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman rule.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78 Stojanow worked in the Russian civil administration of Bulgaria, a. a. as governor of Sofia. In May 1878 he became one of the four judges of the Supreme Court of the new Principality of Bulgaria , which was still set up by the Russian occupation forces , and in 1879 the third President of this court, which in 1880 was transformed into a Supreme Court of Cassation in accordance with a law on the reorganization of the judiciary. From this position Stoyanov was appointed Minister of Justice. As a decidedly Russophile, he was an opponent of the orientation of Bulgaria towards Western Europe and the unification of the principality with the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia in 1885 . Since he also represented this position in journalism, he was temporarily sidelined politically and in terms of his career. After resigning as a minister, he initially worked as a simple judge again until, after his second resignation from the government in 1886, he was appointed President of the Sofia Court of Appeal and in 1887 again President of the Supreme Court of Cassation.

In the last years of his life, in addition to his official work, Stojanow devoted himself to building up his own Bulgarian legal training at the Sofia University, which was initially founded in 1888 with only a philological faculty. From 1892 he taught public law there , and in 1894 this college became the University of Sofia with its own law faculty.

Political career

Stoyanov was a member of the appointed Assembly of Notables , which met between February 10 and April 16, 1879 as the constituent national assembly in Veliko Tarnovo and in the first two legislative periods member (and vice-president) of the regular national assembly in Sofia (until the end of 1880). In April 1880, the newly appointed Prime Minister Dragan Zankow appointed him as Minister of Justice in his cabinet, but this government had to resign in December of the same year after a parliamentary election.

In the interim government Tarnowski (2nd) formed after the forced abdication of Prince Alexander I in May 1886, Stoyanov was his country's foreign minister for three days.

Others

Since 1875 Stojanow was a corresponding, since 1884 full member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, from which in 1911 the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences emerged .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Biographical information and information on terms of office for Христо Тодоров Стоянов as well as information on the history of the court and information on Stoyanov's work on the website of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, accessed on April 8, 2016.
2. ↑ Information on terms of office for Христо Тодоров Стоянов on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on April 8, 2016.

Remarks

1. ↑ An exact date of birth is not known, the year of birth is also mentioned as 1845.