Kirjak Antonov Zankow
Kirják Antonov Tsankov ( Bulgarian Киряк Антонов Цанков ) (* 1847 in Svishtov , then in the Ottoman Empire ; † October 21 . Jul / November 3, 1903 greg. In Bucharest ) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and liberal politicians. From March to September 1883 he was his country's foreign minister.
Life
After attending a school in his hometown, the young Zankow was sent to a business school in Vienna in order to perfect his education. He then began to study medicine in Paris , but did not complete it. In the 1860s he lived in Bucharest and participated in several committees, support groups and actions against the Ottoman rule in Bulgaria, u. a. at the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee, partly in leading positions. During this time he also worked on several short-lived Bulgarian emigrant newspapers.
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78 he returned to Bulgaria and took on various tasks in the reorganization of the country's administration, including a. as chairman of the court in Tutrakan and as assessor at the newly formed Bulgarian Supreme Court. During this time his uncle Dragan Zankow began to surpass him in political importance.
Political career
Zankow 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 elected Grand National Assembly in Sofia (summer 1879) of the newly created Principality of Bulgaria . There he stuck to the liberals. Subsequently, Zankow represented his country in various diplomatic posts, u. a. as secretary of the Bulgarian representation in Constantinople 1879/80 and then until 1883 as head of mission in Bucharest. He was recalled from there due to diplomatic negotiations with the representative of Austria-Hungary during a conference on Danube shipping. Shortly afterwards he was appointed Foreign Minister, but had to resign with the entire government six months later.
Others
In Swishtov and in the small town of Isker a street is named after Kirjak Zankow.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on terms of office for Киряк Антонов Цанков on the website of the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry, accessed on March 27, 2016.
Remarks
- ↑ The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs mentions 1834 on its website, the other sources however “around 1847”.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zankow, Kirjak Antonow |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Цанков, Киряк Антонов |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian revolutionary and liberal politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Swishtow , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1903 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |