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Gavril Krastevich

Gavril Krastevich
Gavril Krastevich General Governor 2.jpg
Governor General of Eastern Rumelia
In office
16 May 1884 – 18 September 1885
Preceded by Alexander Bogoridi
Succeeded by Alexander I of Bulgaria
Personal details
Born (1813-04-05)5 April 1813
Kotel, Ottoman Empire (now in Bulgaria)
Died 17 July 1910(1910-07-17) (aged 88)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)

Gavril Krastevich (Bulgarian: Гаврил Кръстевич) was a Bulgarian politician and historian, and the first translator of Benjamin Franklin into Bulgarian. He was born in Kotel in 1813.

He was Governor General of Eastern Rumelia between 1884 and 1885 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Krastevich died in Istanbul on 16 November 1898.

Honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.


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