Pecho Slavicov

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Pecho Slavicov
Pentscho Slawejkow (left sculpture) and his father Petko (right sculpture) on Slawejkow Square in Sofia .

Pencho Petkow Slawejkow ( Bulgarian Пенчо Петков Славейков , scientific transliteration Penčo Petkov Slavejkov; born  April 27, 1866 in Trjawna , Ottoman Empire ; † June 10, 1912 in Brunate , Italy ) was a Bulgarian poet and one of the participants in the Misal circle. He was the youngest son of the writer Petko Slawejkow .

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He was born in Tryavna, during the Bulgarian Revival under the fall of the Ottoman Empire . Pentscho Slawejkow grew up in Trjawna and received his first education there, but later also in Stara Zagora and Plovdiv .

In an accident at the age of 18, he fell asleep on a bench in the winter while it was snowing, and subsequently developed pneumonia. Despite lengthy treatment in Plovdiv, Sofia , Leipzig , Berlin and Paris , this disease was not without long-term effects - he could not go for a walk without his dog, and he could only speak and write with difficulty. By sinking into melancholy and depression, he tried to find a cure in literature and thus to strengthen his own will.

Slawejkows works, including his poems and the closely related song texts. He worked with many magazines that published his work and he spent part of his life in Leipzig , where he studied philosophy , where he dealt with German literature .

After he returned to Bulgaria in 1898 , Slawejkow joined forces with the Misal circle and many other authors, such as Krastjo Krastew , Petko Todorow or Pejo Jaworow . He became an assistant director (1901 to 1909) and director of the National Library of Saints Cyril and Methodius from 1909 to 1911 and director of the Bulgarian National Theater from 1908 to 1909 .

He was also sent on various missions, such as Moscow and Istanbul in 1909, Athens, Naples , Sorrento and Rome in 1911, where he studied library development . During his return trip he intensified his work.

He lost his post as director of the National Library of Saints Cyril and Methodius on July 10, 1911 because of political misunderstandings with the Minister of Culture Stefan Bobchew and he left Bulgaria. Slawejkow then lived in Zurich , Lucerne , Göschenen , Andermatt , Lugano and other places in Switzerland before arriving in Italy at the end of November 1911 . He initially stayed in Rome for three months , but in May 1912 he set off on a trip to Florence and on to the Engadine to look for a suitable place for a cure in the mountains. At the end of May he came to the small town of Brunate near Lake Como , where he died on June 10, 1912. Slavykov was first buried in the local cemetery in Brunate and in 1921 his remains were exhumed and transferred to Bulgaria, where he was buried in the Sofia Central Cemetery. Due to his early death, the Swedish professor Alfred Jensen , who translated some of his works into Swedish, proposed to the Nobel Prize Committee to posthumously award Slawejkow a Nobel Prize .

Slavicov was featured on the front of the Bulgarian 50 lev banknote from 1999 to 2006 .

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SURNAME Slavicov, Pentscho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Славейков, Пенчо Петков (Bulgarian); Slawejkow, Pentscho Petkow; Slavejkov, Penčo Petkov
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Tryavna , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1912
Place of death Brunate , Italy