Nedelya Petkova

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Nedelya Petkova.

Nedelja Petkowa ( Bulgarian Неделя Петкова ) (born August 13, 1826 in Sopot , † January 1, 1894 in Sofia ) was a well-known figure of the Bulgarian national revival , a Bulgarian educationalist and pioneer in the education of girls in the Ottoman Empire and one of the first Bulgarian teachers in Macedonia .

Life

Petkowa was born in Sopot in 1826 under her maiden name Nedelja Deljuwa Guljowa ( Неделя Делюва Гульова) .

She received basic training in the Convent of the Holy Representation of the Virgin Mary near Sopot and later did further training as an autodidact. At a young age she married Petko Karaiwanow, the youngest uncle of Vasil Levski . When her husband fell ill and died of cholera while traveling, she was solely responsible for her own living and that of her five children, which she provided with sewing and embroidery. Through a recommendation from Najden Gerow , in 1858 she got a job as a teacher at the newly opened girls' school in Sofia . There she taught until 1861, together with Sawa Filaretow. Despite many difficulties, it was possible to teach 200 students after one year. Later she taught, accompanied by her daughter Stanislawa Karaiwanowa, in schools in other cities. In Samokow she worked as a teacher from 1862 to 1864, in Kyustendil from 1864 to 1865, in Prilep from 1865 to 1866, in Ohrid from 1868 to 1869 and in Veles from 1870 to 1871. She is said to have lost her job in Prilep because she behaved independently, dressed freely and smoked. In Veles she joined the local revolutionary committee. After this became known, she was banished from the city. With the support of the Zografou Monastery , she founded a mixed Bulgarian school in the Vardar district of Thessaloniki . There she took part in the struggle of the local population against the Greeks. She founded women's and charity associations and helped send Bulgarian girls to Russia.

After the liberation and establishment of the Principality of Bulgaria in 1878 as a result of the Russo-Turkish War from 1877 to 1878, she lived in Kyustendil in 1878 and settled in Sofia in 1879. She lived there until she moved to Rakitowo in the Pazardzhik Oblast in 1883 to continue working as a teacher. She died in Sofia on January 1, 1894.

She got the honorary title Baba , in German grandmother .

Honor

Nedelya Point , a headland on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , was named after Nedelya Petkova , as was the Nedelya Petkova Primary School in Sopot. Iwo Papasow commemorates her with the song for Baba Nedelya from his 1991 album Balkanology .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Balkanistica . Slavica Publishers., 1996 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Caroline Crawford Zilboorg, Susan B. Gall, Internet Archive: Women's firsts . Detroit: Gale Research, 1997, pp. 145 .
  3. ↑ a b c d Коя е Неделя Петкова. In: nu-sopot.com. http://nu-sopot.com , accessed December 8, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Mary C. Neuburger: Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria . Cornell University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8014-6550-5 , pp. 24 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Nedelya Point. In: gov.au. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)) data.aad.gov.au, accessed on 8 December 2019 .

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SURNAME Petkova, Nedelya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Петкова, Неделя (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian educationalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Sopot
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1894
Place of death Sofia