Ilija Zanow

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Ilija Tomakew Zanow ( Bulgarian Илия Томакев Цанов ) (born July 15 . Jul / July 27, 1835 greg. In Vidin , then in the Ottoman Empire ; † 27. March 1901 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian politician. From July 1884 to August 1886 he was foreign minister of his country.

Life

Zanow was probably the oldest child in a wealthy and partially Turkic family. After attending school in Vidin and Swishtow , he first worked in his father's trading company, on whose behalf he a. a. Visited Vienna and Budapest . His diverse language skills - Russian , Greek , French , Persian and Turkish - made him quickly gain a reputation in the Ottoman administration in Vidin, which he joined before he finally settled as a lawyer in Sofia. Here he worked on the one hand as a judge at the commercial court and as a lecturer in a craft school with boarding school , on the other hand as a public defender in political processes. Among other things, the surviving members of the Freischar Christo Botew belonged to Zanow's clients.

During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78 Zanow worked in the Russian administration of Bulgaria, first as an assistant to the Russian mayor administrator in Sofia, later as president of the Vidin district court.

After leaving the ministerial office, he worked again as a lawyer. In 1891 he was arrested (among others) after the assassination attempt on Christo Beltschew and only released without trial a year later.

Political career

Zanow 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, second and fourth legislative periods a member of the regular national assembly in Sofia, where he was one of the leaders of the liberals occurred. At times he was also Secretary General (today, for example: State Secretary ) in the Ministry of Justice. In 1883/84 he was a member of the Bulgarian Mission in Constantinople , from which position he was appointed Foreign Minister. As a minister he negotiated and signed the Tophane Treaty for the unification of Eastern Rumelia with the Principality of Bulgaria .

Others

The younger brother Najtscho Zanow later became chairman of the Radical Democratic Party of Bulgaria.

In Sofia there is a memorial to Ilija Zanow at the entrance to the National Legal Aid Office of Bulgaria.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Новакова, Мария - Териториален архив (Novakowa, Maria - Territorial Archive ): Илия Цанов 1835-1901 on the website www.vidin-online.com, accessed on March 30, 2016.
  2. ^ Gopčević, Spiridion: Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. Leipzig: B. Elischer, 1886. Reprint London: Forgotten Books, 2013. p. 268.
  3. ↑ Information on terms of office for Илия Томакев Цанов on the website of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, accessed on March 29, 2016.

Remarks

  1. ↑ The years of birth of some of his five siblings have not been recorded.
  2. ↑ The father called himself Hadshi Tomaki Bej Zanow , the maternal grandfather Emanuil Schischmanoğlu .
personal data
SURNAME Zanow, Ilija
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zanow, Ilija Tomakew (full name); Цанов, Илия Томакев
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Vidin
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1901
Place of death Sofia