Trayko Kitanchev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Trayko Kitanchev

Bulgarian writer

Date of Birth: 01-Sep-1858

Place of Birth: PodmoÄŤani, Pelagonia Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1895

Profession: poet, politician

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Trayko Kitanchev

  • Trayko Tsvetkov Kitanchev (Bulgarian: ?????? ??????? ????????; 1 September 1858 – 13 August 1895) was a Bulgarian teacher, social figure, poet and revolutionary.
  • In 1895, he was the first chairman of the Supreme Macedonian–Adrianopolitan Committee, a Sofia-based organization seeking the autonomy of Macedonia and southern Thrace. Kitanchev was born in the village of Podmochani near Resen (then in Ottoman Macedonia, today in the Republic of Macedonia).
  • In 1869, he was sent to the imperial capital Istanbul to study at the Bulgarian school in Phanar with the aid of Nathanael of Ohrid; in Phanar, his classmate was future Bulgarian socialist leader Dimitar Blagoev and his teacher was Petko Slaveykov.From 1874 to 1879, Kitanchev studied at the Kiev seminary in the Russian Empire.
  • After his graduation he briefly studied law in Moscow until 1880.
  • In that year, he returned to the Balkans to work as a teacher at the Saints Peter and Paul Seminary in Lyaskovets and the Bulgarian Men's High School in Thessaloniki.
  • In 1884, Trayko Kitanchev moved to Plovdiv, at the time still the capital of Eastern Rumelia; shortly afterwards he settled in Sofia, capital of the Principality of Bulgaria.
  • In the same year, he became a full member of the Bulgarian Literary Society (today's Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). During the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, Kitanchev fought as a volunteer in the Bulgarian Army.
  • In Sofia, Kitanchev befriended Stefan Stambolov, with whom he even shared a room for some time.
  • During the August 1886 coup attempt aimed at overthrowing Prince Alexander Battenberg, Kitanchev accompanied Stambolov in Tarnovo and wrote the proclamation declaring the takeover illegal to Stambolov's dictation.
  • During Stambolov's term as Prime Minister of Bulgaria (1887–1894), however, their relations worsened.
  • After the assassination of Minister of Finance Hristo Belchev in 1891, Kitanchev was imprisoned as a potential accomplice. After his release from prison, Kitanchev was once again teacher at the Bulgarian high school in Thessaloniki and then school inspector in Tarnovo.
  • He became close friends with liberal leader Petko Karavelov and was elected member of parliament from the Democratic Party. When the Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee was established in March 1895, Kitanchev was elected its first chairman during the organization's constituent congress.
  • However, the failure of the committee's armed infiltration of Ottoman Macedonia in the same year was a fatal blow to Kitanchev's health.
  • He died in Sofia in August 1895.

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