Hristo Stambolski
Hristo Tanev Stambolski was a Bulgarian physician, revolutionary, statesman and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. He was the first, to translate the medical terminology from arabian to turkish. [1] ,[2]
Biography
Hristo Stambolski was born on the 8 of august 1843 in Kazanluk. He was the first kid of the teacher and dealer Stoencho Stambologlu und his wife Dafina. On august 14, 1852, the vigil of Mary` s Assumption , because he helped the priest to use the new Semantron, was arrested. At the request of rich people from Kasanlak he was liberated. After this event he started thinking about one free Bulgaria. He began to study in Kasanlak and from 1858 he was a student in the Imperial medical school in Istanbul. Even when a student (1865) he participated in the war with the Cholera and 1867 he healed sick from Typhus. Therefore he was awarded with the turkish Medjidie-Medal.
He was very famous in Istanbul and knew many persons of high standing. He had the opportunity, to be an outstanding figure in the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church. He was a member of the temporary counsel of the Bulgarian exarchate and president of the Bulgarian chitalishte in Istanbul. He worked not only with the supporters of the church struggle-Ilarion Makariopolski, but also with the revolutionaries - Georgi Rakovski and Vassil Levski. 1877 he was exiled in Yemen , where he described for first time the filariasis. [3]
After the liberation of Bulgaria he returned to Kazanlak and became a deputy in the parliament of East Rumelia. 1881 he was minister of the postal services and road traffic. During Stefan Stambolov`s dictatorship he was under house arrest.Later he worked in Aleksandrovska Hospital. In spite of the fact that he was a physician, he wrote the book „Old Bulgarian history“ . In 1931 appeared the last part of his autobiography. He died in 1832 when he was 88 years old.