Short Eulogy for the Life and Works of Kuzman Shapkarev Presented to the 34th Scholarly Readings of “Ongal” Association – 10.10.2014, Samokov Cover Image
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Кратко слово за живота и делото на Кузман Шапкарев пред Тридесет и четвъртите научни четения на Асоциация „Онгъл“ – 10.10.2014 г., гр. Самоков
Short Eulogy for the Life and Works of Kuzman Shapkarev Presented to the 34th Scholarly Readings of “Ongal” Association – 10.10.2014, Samokov

Author(s): Ekaterina Shapkareva-Koleva
Subject(s): History, Anthropology, Social Sciences, Education, Cultural history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Асоциация за антропология, етнология и фолклористика ОНГЬЛ

Summary/Abstract: The text presents in a popular scholarly style the most characteristic features of the personality and works of Kuzman Shapkarev. He was a Bulgarian revival activist, ethnographer, publicist and public figure, educational propagandist, awakener of Bulgarian self-identification, advocate of the truth about Bulgarians in Macedonia, fighter for the renouncing if the spiritual yoke of the Greek Patriarchate and founding of an independent Bulgarian church, one of the first members of the Bulgarian Literary Society, now Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Author of the biography is the granddaughter of Kuzman Shapkarev – Mrs. Ekaterina Shapkareva-Koleva.

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