Georgi Sava Rakovski

Georgi Rakovski
Георги Раковски
Georgi Rakovski
Born
Sabi Stoykov Popovich
Съби Стойков Попович (in Bulgarian)

(1821-04-14)14 April 1821
Kotel, Sanjak of İslimiye, Adrianople Eyalet, Ottoman Empire
Died9 October 1867(1867-10-09) (aged 46)

Georgi Stoykov Rakovski (Bulgarian: Георги Стойков Раковски) (1821 – 9 October 1867), known also Georgi Sava Rakovski (Георги Сава Раковски), born Sabi Stoykov Popovich (Съби Стойков Попович), was a 19th-century Bulgarian revolutionary, freemason, writer and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and resistance against Ottoman rule.[1]

  1. ^ Bourchier, James David (1911). "Bulgaria/Language" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 04 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 784–786, see page 786, line 15. Among the writers of the literary renaissance were George Rakovski (1818–1867), a fantastic writer of the patriotic type, whose works did much to stimulate the national zeal