Danail Kraptschew

Danail Kraptschew

Danail Kraptschew , Bulgarian Данаил Крапчев (* December 1880 in Prilep , today North Macedonia , † September 10, 1944 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian journalist, publicist, freedom fighter and revolutionary. He was a co-founder and member of the Macedonian Scientific Institute in Sofia and editor of the Zora newspaper .

Life

Danail Kraptschew was born in the Macedonian city ​​of Prilep in 1880 . However, he fled with his parents to the Principality of Bulgaria , where he studied history at St. Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia in 1906 . In the same year he began working as a journalist for the weekly magazine of the Bulgarian refugees from Macedonia and Eastern Thrace "Makedono-Odrinski Pregled" (bulg. Македоно-Одрински преглед , dt. Makedonischer-Ostthrakischer Overview ) to work, crossing as part of a Tscheta several times the limit direction Macedonia.

In 1907 he edited the magazine "Ilinden" (Bulgarian Илинден ) together with Pejo Jaworow . A year later he moved to Thessaloniki , where he successively worked as an editor of the newspapers "Otetschestwo" (Bulgarian Отечество , German fatherland) and "Rodina" (Bulgarian Родина , German homeland). In the period from 1909 to 1912 he returned to Bulgaria, where he published the newspaper " Vardar " (Bulgarian Вардар ). Since it had its readers mainly in Macedonia, Kraptschew changed the name of the magazine several times in order to evade the Ottoman censorship and to prevent a publication ban. The changed names of the magazine were: "Mesta" (Bulgarian "Места"), "Struma" (Bulgarian "Струма"), "Mariza" (Bulgarian "Марица") and "Bregalniza" (Bulgarian "Брегалница") .

In the run-up to the First Balkan War of 1912, Kraptschew and Jaworow settled again as Chetnik in Macedonia. In the course of the year, however, he published the newspaper "Balgarin" (Bulgarian Българин , German Bulgarian) in Thessaloniki.

After the end of the Second Balkan War in 1913, he worked again in Sofia, where he worked as editor of the newspaper " Prjapowez ", the organ of the Democratic Party .

From 1919 until his death he edited the independent daily newspaper "Zora", which was also called the Bulgarian Times . On September 9, 1944, during the days of the Red Terror , he was picked up by communists on the street in Gorna Jumaya (now Blagoevgrad ) . The next morning his body was found on a train at Sofia Central Station.

Fonts

• Izminal Pat (Bulgar. Изминат път), 3 volumes.

literature

• Christo Ognjanov: Danail Kraptschew. Memories (from the Bulgarian Данаил Крапчев. Спомени), Makedonia pres publishing house, 1997, ISBN 9548823101 .
• Stéphane Groueff: My Odyssey , iUniverse, 2003, ISBN 9780595257096 , p. 62.
• Marshall Lee Miller: Bulgaria during the Second World War , Stanford University Press, 1975, ISBN 0804708703 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Founder member of the Macedonian Scientific Institute (Bulgarian) ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Danail Kraptschew and the newspaper Zora. (Interviews, letters, documents) (Bulgarian) by Zweta Trifonowa