Vasil Aprilov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Vasil Aprilov

Bulgarian educator

Date of Birth: 21-Jul-1789

Place of Birth: Gabrovo, Gabrovo Province, Bulgaria

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1847

Profession: writer, patron of the arts

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov (Bulgarian: ????? ????????? ???????) (21 July 1789 – 2 October 1847) was a Bulgarian educator.
He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Brasov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna.
After 1811 he was a merchant in Odessa.
He initially participated in the Greek revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the Bulgarian Renaissance, thanks to Yuriy Venelin, whose book "The Ancient and Present Bulgarians" (1829), aroused in Imperial Russia a special interest in them.
From then on, he began to gather Bulgarian folk songs.
In his will he left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo.
This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the Bell-Lancaster method.
The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the Ottoman empire. Aprilov Point on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Vasil Aprilov.