Georgi Bakalov

Georgi Ivanov Bakalow ( Bulgarian Георги Иванов Бакалов ; born December 10, 1873 in Stara Sagora , † July 14, 1939 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian literary critic.

Life

Bakalov was involved in the Bulgarian labor movement. From 1923 to 1925 he ran the Now Pyt newspaper . In 1925 he went into exile in the Soviet Union . After temporarily staying in France , he lived again in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1932. From 1932 to 1934 he ran the newspaper Zvezda and in 1935 the Nowa Literatura . The left-leaning newspaper projects were a focal point for left-wing intellectuals and writers. Bakalov was committed to the socialist literature of Bulgaria and spoke out for the classical literature of Russia and Soviet literature. In some cases he was also accused of "sectarian misjudgments" in relation to humanistic literature from the socialist side.

He worked as a translator of writings by Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Soviet authors.

In March 1932 he was elected as an external corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

literature

Bakalov, Georgi . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1983, page 20.

Individual evidence

↑ Bakalov, Georgi . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1983, page 20
^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Bakalow, Georgi. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 30, 2019 (in Russian).

personal data
SURNAME	Bakalov, Georgi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bakalov, Georgi Ivanov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bulgarian literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH	December 10, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stara Sagora
DATE OF DEATH	July 14, 1939
Place of death	Sofia

[1] Bakalov, Georgi . In: Taschenlexikon Bulgaria , Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1983, page 20

[2] Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724: Bakalow, Georgi. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed August 30, 2019 (in Russian).