Georgi Scheljaskowitsch

Georgi Scheljaskowitsch ( Bulgarian Георги Желязкобич ; * 1829 in Sofia or Swishtov , Ottoman Empire , † 1889 in Sofia, Bulgaria ) was a Bulgarian politician and financial expert.

After completing a law degree in Moscow in 1867 , Scheljaskowitsch worked for the Ottoman Bank in Plovdiv or trading companies affiliated with this bank until the end of Ottoman rule over Bulgaria in 1878 . In 1868 he joined the Bulgarian Literary Society (from which the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences emerged in 1911 ) and was temporarily secretary of the Plovdiv section. During the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877/78 he was appointed to the Russian civil administration. On July 1, 1879, the constituent national assembly appointed him the first governor of the newly founded Bulgarian National Bank . From this office he was appointed finance minister in the short-lived Ernrot government in July 1881 and held the office in the subsequent government of Prince Alexander I until June 23, 1882. After leaving the ministerial office, the subsequent government appointed Scheljaskowitsch one of several government commissioners for the supervision of the railway construction and later chief commissioner for the introduction of the decimal system in Bulgaria. He also published articles in the magazines Съзнание ( Consciousness ) and Търновска конституция ( Constitution of Tarnowo ) regularly until his death .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography Георги Желязкович on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance, accessed on January 26, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Short biography Георги Желязкович on the website of the Bulgarian National Bank, accessed on March 27, 2016.