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Pencho Petkov Slaveykov (
27 April 1866 –
10 June 1912) was a noted
Bulgarian
poet and one of the participants in the
Misal ("Thought") circle. He was the youngest son of the writer
Petko Slaveykov.
Born in
Tryavna during the
Bulgarian National Revival under
Ottoman rule, Pencho was educated there as well as in
Stara Zagora and
Plovdiv. After an accident in January 1884 he fell ill, and despite lengthy treatment in Plovdiv,
Sofia,
Leipzig,
Berlin and
Paris, this illness left him with serious impairments — he couldn't walk without a cane, and he wrote and spoke with difficulties. He suffered from
melancholic episodes, which forced him to find a cure in literature and to harden his will.
Slaveykov's works include poems and intimate lyrics. He collaborated with a number of magazines, which issued his works, and spent a part of his life in Leipzig studying philosophy, where he became familiar with
German literature, thought and art.
After returning to
Bulgaria in 1898, Slaveykov joined the Misal circle with a number of other noted poets. He became an assistant director (1901–1909) and later director of the
National Library of Bulgaria (1909–1911) and a director of the
Bulgarian National Theatre (1908–1909).
He was sent on missions to
Moscow (1909) and
Istanbul,
Athens,
Naples,
Sorrento, and
Rome (1911), where he studied the development of the libraries. Upon returning he engaged in hectic work.
He was fired from the post of director of the National Library because of political misunderstandings with the minister of culture
Stefan Bobchev on
10 July 1911, and left Bulgaria, living in
Zürich,
Lucerne,
Göschenen,
Andermatt,
Lugano and other places in
Switzerland before arriving in
Italy in the end of November 1911. He remained in Rome for three months, but set off in May 1912 to travel through
Florence, the
Engadin and the mountains looking for a cure. In the end of the month he arrived in the small town of
Brunate near
Lake Como, where he died on
28 May(
10 June of Gregorian calendar).
Slaveykov was buried in Brunate's cemetery and his remains were moved to Bulgaria in 1921. Due to his death, the suggestion by
Swedish professor Al. Jensen that Slaveykov be awarded a
Nobel Prize wasn't considered by the Nobel Prize committee.
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