Ivan Bogorov
{{Short description|Bulgarian encyclopedist (1818–1892)}}
Ivan Bogorov ({{langx|bg|Иван Богоров}}) (1818–November 1, 1892) was a Bulgarian encyclopedist from the time of the National Revival. Educated in medicine, he also worked in the spheres of industry, economy, transport, geography, journalism and linguistics.
Biography
He was born in Karlovo in 1818.{{cite book |last=MacDermott |first= Mercia |author-link= Mercia MacDermott |title= A History of Bulgaria 1395–1885 |place= New York |publisher= Frederick A. Praeger |year= 1962 |accessdate= 18 June 2021 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofbulgari00macd |url-access= registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36048/page/140/mode/2up 140] |via= Internet Archive }} Bogorov studied at the Phanar Greek Orthodox College in Istanbul, and at 19 he moved to Odessa to study at the Richelieu High School. In 1841, he published the Bulgarian coat of arms from Hristofor Zhefarovich's Stemmatographia (1741). For some time, Bogorov travelled to Bucharest, Svishtov, Veliko Tarnovo, Kazanlak (which he called "Izvornik") and Gabrovo before settling in Stara Zagora ("Veta Zagora"). He promoted education in Bulgarian as opposed to Greek during his journeys. In Stara Zagora, he wrote the first Bulgarian grammar book, which he printed in Bucharest in 1844.{{cite book |last= Crampton |first= R. J. |title= A Concise History of Bulgaria |year= 2005|edition=2nd |publisher=Cambridge University Press |place=Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paolo |page= 62}} He then moved to Leipzig ("Lipiska"), where he issued the first Bulgarian newspaper, Balgarskiy orel (Bulgarian Eagle) in 1846, two years after Konstantin Fotinov's first Bulgarian magazine, Lyuboslovie. Bogorov returned to Istanbul, where he worked for the Tsarigradski Vestnik newspaper, and then moved to Paris to study medicine. After that, Bogorov settled in Plovdiv to work as a doctor. There, he also issued the Journal for Science, Handicrafts and Trade. He participated in the release of several other newspapers, journals and books, and prepared the Academic Bulgarian Dictionary and the first French-Bulgarian (1869) and Bulgarian-French (1871) dictionary.{{cite book |editor1=Gilman, Daniel Coit |editor1-link= Daniel Coit Gilman |editor2= Peck, Harry Thurston |editor2-link= Harry Thurston Peck |editor3= Colby, Frank Moore |editor3-link= Frank Moore Colby |chapter= Bulgarian Language |title= The New International Encyclopaedia |place= New York |publisher=Dodd, Mead and Company |year= 1903 |volume=III |page= 593 |hdl= 2027/njp.32101079830178?urlappend=%3Bseq=671 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101079830178?urlappend=%3Bseq=671 |access-date= September 6, 2018 |via= HathiTrust Digital Library}} Bogorov also translated Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe into Bulgarian and issued a collection of Bulgarian folk songs (1842). He also authored a book on the geography of the European part of the Ottoman Empire.
Bogorov was known as a passionate defender of linguistic purism, and in his attempts to counter Greek and Russian influence on Bulgarian he introduced a number of rare dialectal words and neologisms to the literary language.{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bulgaria/Language |volume= 04 |last= Bourchier |first= James David |author-link= James David Bourchier | pages = 784–786;see page 785, para three, four lines from end of para|quote=An anti-Russian reaction was initiated by Borgoroff (1818–1892), and has been maintained by numerous writers educated in the German and Austrian universities}} Although many of these were considered amusing and funny-sounding by his contemporaries, a large number have successfully become an inseparable part of Bulgarian vocabulary.
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- {{cite book |chapter=Иван Богоров |last=Младенов |first=Стефан |chapter-url=http://liternet.bg/publish7/smladenov/ibogorov.htm |access-date=2007-05-18 |title=Библиотека "Български писатели". Живот — творчество — идеи |editor=Михаил Арнаудов, Николай Аретов |volume=1 |url=http://liternet.bg/publish9/marnaudov/bpisateli/1/content.htm |language=bg |orig-year=1929 |year=2003 |publisher=Факел, LiterNet |location=София, Варна |oclc=5507043 }}
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