Ivan Salabashev

Ivan Salabashev 1910

Ivan Petrow Salabaschew ( Bulgarian Иван Петров Салабашев ; * 7 January ^July / 19 January 1853 ^greg. In Eski Saara , Ottoman Empire ; † 14 June 1924 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian mathematician and politician. From 1888 to 1890, 1892 to 1894 and 1908 to 1910 he was finance minister three times in the governments of Stambolow and Malinow I. In 1892 he was also his country's minister of justice for a few months.

Life and work

Ivan was born in a family of dignitaries and after a few years of schooling in Stara Sagora he graduated from the grammar school in Tábor from 1870 to 1872 . With the support of his rector, he obtained official permission to complete two classes at the same time. He impressed teachers and classmates with his math skills. He then studied mathematics at the Prague Polytechnic until 1876 and published articles in the journal of the Czech Mathematical Society . His thesis there is now considered the first ever Bulgarian scientific text on mathematics. Even in Tabor Salabaschew contact with Bulgarian revolutionaries as did Angel Kanchev found with Lyuben Karavelov was close correspondence. In 1876 he wanted to take part in the Serbian-Ottoman war on the Serbian side as a war volunteer , but soon left Serbia again out of disappointment with the attitude there towards the Bulgarian volunteers. Then he was a teacher until 1879 at the grammar school in Bolhrad in today's Ukraine, which was very important for the higher education of the Bulgarians .

After Bulgaria's liberation from Ottoman rule, Salabashev initially worked in the administration of the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia in Plovdiv , before settling in Kazanlak as a rose oil dealer for a few years from 1884 . From 1881 to 1885 Salabashev was also the editor of the magazine Наука ( science ) and the newspaper Южна България ( southern Bulgaria ), in which numerous articles of his own appeared. At that time Salabaschew also became a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, from which the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences emerged in 1911 .

Political career

In Plovdiv Salabashev joined the newly founded Liberal Party of Eastern Rumelia, which after the unification of this province with Bulgaria in 1885 became part of the National Liberal Party. He became head of the chancellery in the Directorate for Popular Education (today, for example, State Secretary in the Ministry of Education ) and in this role he works closely with Konstantin Jireček in establishing a similar school system in the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. In the fall of 1879 he was elected a member of the provincial assembly. later he was appointed judge at the provincial supreme court, after all he was director of the administration of justice from April 1882 to August 1884 (today: Minister of Justice ) and thus one of the most important party members, albeit without a party office. In 1888, three years after unification with Bulgaria, he became Bulgaria's first finance minister. While the financing of the railway construction was the main focus of his activities in his first two terms of office, the most important task of Salabashev was the restoration of the chronically deficit state budget as well as the reduction of Bulgaria's dependency on foreign loans and the associated foreign political influence. Swing policy "z. B. sought to fulfill between French and Austro-Hungarian banks. During his second term in office, Bulgaria switched to the gold standard , and during his third term as minister he also negotiated with the Ottoman government about the financial consequences of full Bulgarian independence.

In the VI., VII., XI. and XIII. Salabashev was a member of the National Assembly between 1888 and 1908 and joined the newly formed Democratic Party in 1903. After leaving the ministerial office, Salabaschew was sent to the court of Emperor Franz Joseph I as Minister Plenipotentiary in September 1910 and remained in this post in Vienna through wars, revolution and the dissolution of the state until shortly before his death in 1924.

Others

Salabaschew was an enthusiastic chess player and also campaigned for the spread of this game in his public offices. In 1898 he was a co-founder and first president of the Bulgarian Physical-Mathematical Society. The first Bulgarian translation of the novel Journey around the earth in 80 days Jules Verne was also by Salabashev.

Since 1992, a national mathematical tournament for schoolchildren has been held every year in memory of him in Stara Sagora.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Short biography Иван Салабашев on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance, accessed on January 26, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Short biography ИВАН САЛАБАШЕВ (1853–1924) on the website of the Museum of Mathematics and Computer Science in Bulgaria, accessed on January 26, 2018.