Angel Kanchev
Angel Kunchev Angelov ( Bulgarian Ангел Кънчев Ангелов; born November 11, 1850 in Tryavna, † March 5, 1872, suicide in blacks, today in Bulgaria), known only as Angel Kunchev, was a Bulgarian revolutionary and freedom fighter.
Life
Angel Kunchev was born in the town of Tryavna, which is located in the Balkan Mountains and part of the Ottoman Empire at that time. The city was at that time one of the cultural centers of the Bulgarian National Revival. After the completion of the cells school he went to further education in the Danube city of Ruse. Because of its good performance in school he got a gifted scholarship, which was announced by Bulgarians to make Wasil Aprilov and was able to visit the famous Bulgarian school in Bolgrad in Bessarabia.
After the completion of the Bolgrader high school he enrolled in the Belgrade military school. Shortly after his settlement in Belgrade, he made contact with the Bulgarian emigrants to the revolutionary and ideologue Rakowski. A little later, he joined the Second Bulgarian Legion (1867 ), which pursued the goal of military training young men and when the opportunity arises an uprising to send from Serbia over the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria in order to engage in an erupting uprising. Here he made friends with other revolutionaries and freedom fighters, among other things, with the Apostle of Freedom - Vasil Levski, Panayot Chitow and Stefan Karadzha. After the Serbian government had banned the Legion and its members arrested, to Kunchev sat with the other members are still free to Romania, where he through contributions to the newspaper Danube morning ( Bulg " Дунавска зора " / Dunavska Zora ), the Bulgarian population to struggle against Ottoman Turkish foreign rulers calling.
1870 and 1871 he studied at the agricultural and industrial school in Tábor Czech. After completion of which he returned to the " subjugated " Bulgaria to a Tschiflik to work (of Turkish Çiftlik for " cottage" ) near Ruse.
Returns to Bulgaria, he continued not only his connections with the revolutionary emigration. He was by the Bulgarian Central Revolutionary Committee appointed in 1871 ( shortly BRZK ) in Bucharest deputy Wasil Lewskis and went into hiding. The end of August of the same year he met in Lovech with Levski, where the outbreak of an uprising was discussed. This Kunchev was applied revolutionary activity in today's northern Bulgaria, which played a central role in the logistics of the organization. Especially for the revolutionary committee of the regions in the Balkan Mountains and south of the Balkan Mountains and the Thracian plane of the arms and ammunition supply was essential for survival of Romania over northern Bulgaria.
In short time he managed Kunchev in the Danube Lowland establish revolutionary committees and to streamline the structure of the organization. On March 5, 1872, he was, in an attempt to Ottoman- Romanian border crossing at Rousse, discovered by the Ottoman border police. To avoid arrest, he taught himself to himself. His death was a severe setback for the organization, but he built structures were further used and played an important role in the preparations for the Stara Zagora Uprising (1875 ) and the April Uprising (1876 ). At the site of his suicide, a monument was erected in modern times, reminiscent of his actions.
Today, his birthplace is converted into a museum. In Bulgaria many facilities, such as the Angel Kunchev University in Russian bear his name.