Mikhail Majarov

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Mikhail Ivanov Madscharow ( Bulgarian Михаил Иванов Маджаров ) (born January 31 . Jul / 12. February  1854 greg. In Koprivshtitsa , then in the Ottoman Empire ; † 23. January 1944 in Sofia ) was a Bulgarian journalist , diplomat and politician. In 1884/85 he headed the administration for finance of the autonomous province of Eastern Rumelia , from 1894 to 1899 he was Minister for Public Buildings, Roads and Post in the Stoilow (2nd) and (3rd) cabinets, in June / July 1913 in the Danew ( 4.) Minister of the Interior, from October 1918 to May 1919 in the Cabinets of Teodorow (1st) and (2nd) Minister of Defense and from October 1919 to April 1920 in the Stambolijski government Foreign Minister of his country.

Life

Majarow, a nephew of the revolutionary Georgi Benkowski , came from a family of craftsmen and merchants. After attending schools in his hometown and in Philippopel (today: Plovdiv) as well as the Robert College in Constantinople , he worked as a teacher in Pazardzhik from 1877 to 1879 before turning to politics. Majarow was the founder and initially also editor of the first Bulgarian newspaper after the liberation, the Maritsa , from 1894 until the end of his life he was also the editor of the newspaper Mir . In the wake of the domestic political disputes about Bulgaria's foreign policy course - orientation towards Western Europe or Russia - Majarov was briefly arrested in 1885, in 1886 he went into exile in Russia via Constantinople for some time, where he settled in Odessa . After his return in 1889 he worked alongside his parliamentary work as a publicist (he wrote the first Bulgarian translation of Tolstoy's novel War and Peace ) and a lawyer . Majarov was the father of the poet and writer Anna Kamenova.

Political career

Even in Eastern Rumelia, Majarov was one of the leaders of the People's Party in the parliamentary assembly of this territory. After the unification of the autonomous province with the Principality of Bulgaria , he was a member of the National Assembly without interruption until the election in March 1920 . 1913/14 Madscharow was Bulgarian ambassador to Great Britain , then until 1915 in Russia .

Due to his continued opposition to Prime Minister Stambolijsky's political course, he was arrested two years after he left his government and brought to trial in Shumen .

Publications

In addition to numerous newspaper articles published by Madscharow

  • Източна Румелия. Исторически прегледъ ( Eastern Rumelia. Historical Review ), Sofia: SM Stajkow, 1925.
  • Дипломатическа подготовка на нашите войни ( The diplomatic preparation of our wars ), Sofia: Mir- Verlag, 1932.
  • Спомени (1854-1889) ( Memoirs 1854-1889 ). Sofia 1968, posthumously.

Others

Since 1884 Madscharow was a member of the Bulgarian Literary Society, from which in 1911 the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences emerged . In Sofia a street улица Академик Михаил Маджаров reminds of him, and he is an honorary citizen of the city of Popovo .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on terms of office for Михаил Иванов Маджаров on the website of the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, accessed on April 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Short biography МАДЖАРОВ, Михаил Иванов on the website of the project Съединението на България ( The Union of Bulgaria ) of the Plovdiv Historical Museum , accessed on April 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Majarov, Mikhail
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Михаил Иванов Маджаров; Madzharov, Mikhail; Madžarov, Michail Ivanov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Kopriwschtiza , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1944
Place of death Sofia