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