Шуменци, възпитаници на италиански учебни заведения (края на XIX – началото на XX век)
Residents of Shumen, Graduates of Italian Educational Institutions (end of the 19th – beginning of the 20th Century)

Author(s): Rositsa Angelova
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Education, Local History / Microhistory, Modern Age, Higher Education , 19th Century
Published by: Център за стопанско-исторически изследвания
Keywords: Shumen; youth; Italian educational institutions; modernity; education
Summary/Abstract: The historical narrative presents the youth of Shumen who received education in Italian educational institutions at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. They studied in today's cities of Turin, Milan, Pisa, Pinerolo and Naples. In the period from 1879 to 1912, ten young people born in Shumen studied in Italian educational institutions. Among them are the girls Penka Preslavska and Manya Dimitrova. A significant part of the Shumen graduates are realized in various spheres of activity - veterinarians, generals, professors in higher schools, artists, actors, and teachers. Graduated or not, they return to their homeland having mastered European languages and the achievements of Western European civilization. This large number, as well as the specialities chosen by them, are a vivid testimony to the aspiration of the Shumen youth to obtain higher education and to make efforts for the modernization of the Third Bulgarian State and their native Shumen.

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