Profile of Grigor Prličev
Profile of Grigor Prličev

Summary/Abstract: The poet Grigor Prličev was born in the Macedonian city of Ohrid, most probably in 1830, or according to other sources, in 1831. He composed poetry in Greek and translated ancient and modern Greek literature. He was taught by Dimitar Miladinov (1810-1862) known in this period for his educational activities among Slavs from the territory of Turkish Macedonia; Miladinov was initially a Hellenophile, later a misohellene and a Slavophile; with his brother Konstantin (1830–1862) he collected and published in Zagreb in 1861 folk songs from “Bulgaria and Western Bulgaria, i.e. Macedonia,” as Konstantin wrote in his announcement of the famous publication1 in the periodical “Дунавски лебед” (“The Danube Swan”), published in Belgrade in 1860–61 by Georgi Sava Rakowsky (1821–1867), a Bulgarian poet, journalist and activist for the cause of religious and educational autonomy among Slavs living in Turkish territories.

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