Ljuben Karavelov, Bulgaria (1834-1879)
Born in Koprivshtitsa, Rumelia (now in Bulgaria). Bulgarian writer and revolutionary who contributed to the national reawakening of Bulgaria. Emigrating to Russia at 23, Karavelov studied in Moscow where he was influenced by Russian radical thought. There he began writing about political issues and studies of his homeland for various periodicals.
Due to his safety being threatened by his revolutionary contacts, he moved to Serbia (1867) but was shortly expelled for collaborating with the Serbian liberal opposition. Moving to Bucharest, he took up the Bulgarian revolutionary cause in his journals Svoboda (Freedom, 1869-72) and Nezavisimost (Independence, 1873-74) and helped to found the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee.