Marco Dimitrov Balabanov (1837-1921) - Bulgarian lawyer, politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religion (1879, 1883-1884), chairman of the 11th National Assembly of Bulgaria (1901-1902).
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Born in 1837, studied theology at the Greek Academy of Constantinople, then law in Paris. In 1870–74, he published, together with P. Slaveikov , D. Tsankov, and others, a two-week magazine called Chitalishche, which put forward (hardly, however, not for the sake of censorship) the task of educating the people as opposed to the revolutionary one; in 1874–76 he published the weekly magazine Vek, which was banned in 1876.
During the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78 , and Russian rule in territories conquered from the Turks, the Russian authorities appointed Balabanov as vice-governor of the Tarnovo province. He was a member of the constituent Tarnovo national assembly (1879), where he hesitated between conservatives ( Stoilov , Nachevich , Grekov ) and liberals ( Karavelov , Tsankov , Slaveykov ), often voting with the former. However, at his suggestion, an article was added to the constitution that reads: "titles of nobility and other distinctions, as well as orders, are not allowed."
After Prince Alexander I arrived in Bulgaria in 1879, Balabanov was asked to form a ministry, but he refused and took only a portfolio of foreign affairs in Burmov’s first (conservative) office, which fell immediately after the convocation of the first ordinary public meeting (1879). After the coup of 1881, which changed the constitution, Balabanov joined the liberal party, but took little part in politics. In 1883-1884 was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second and third offices of Dragan Tsankov .
At the higher school (university) in Sofia, he received a chair at the Faculty of Law and was a professor. In 1911 he was appointed a member of the newly founded Academy of Sciences in Sofia. Translated several comedies of Moliere and novels by George Zand into Bulgarian; in the seventies he wrote French brochures about Bulgaria.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 International Standard Identifier
- ↑ 1 2 National Library of Australia - 1960.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1051744962 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
Literature
- Balabanov, Marco Dimitrov // Encyclopedic Dictionary of Brockhaus and Efron : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Balabanov, Marco // New Encyclopedic Dictionary : In 48 volumes (29 volumes were published). - SPb. , Pg. , 1911-1916.