Йосиф Емигер – неизвестен псевдоним на Иван Драсов
Josеph Emiger – Unknown Pseudonym of Ivan Drasov

Summary/Abstract: The State Archives – Varna, fund 690 K (Ivan Drasov) preserves three letters from the summer of 1875, written by the Viennese Bulgarian Yanko Kovachev to an addressee in the city of Prague named Joseph Emiger. From the content of the letters, we learn that Joseph Emiger sent Yanko Kovachev various materials intended for publication in the Bulgarian magazine “Letostruy or Home Calendar”. Several circumstances give us reason to assume that Joseph Emiger is a pseudonym used by Ivan Drasov. 1) There is currently no information about a person of Czech origin named Joseph Emiger, who collaborated with the editorial staff of the magazine “Letostruy”. 2) Correspondence using pseudonyms was a frequent practice for Ivan Drasov throughout the entire period of his public activity before the Liberation of Bulgaria. 3) After the Liberation, Drasov himself claims to have collaborated with the magazine “Letostruy”, using the pseudonym “J. E.”.

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