Dr. Ivan Seliminski (1799 – 1866) was a prominent

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philosopher, scholar, teacher and medical doctor.

Education

He was born in

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in 1799. Later, he took the name of this town as his surname. His early school years were spent in a Greek school in Sliven. His secondary education was in Kidonia. He traveled in

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Teacher

Seliminski returned to Sliven in 1825. He opened a school in which he taught physics. His school became one of the first Bulgarian lower-level secondary schools.

Evacuation in Bessarabia

On the eve of the

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(1828–1829) he organized many Bulgarians to support the Russian army. With the creation of revolutionary organizations in Sliven and some other cities, Seliminski became the first major Bulgarian revolutionary. After the war Seliminski participated in Russian delegations. Many Bulgarian people left their homes and emigrated to the other side of the

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in Vlahia. Ivan Seliminski opened a school and was a teacher in New Sliven (now Berjazka) and

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Medical doctor

From 1840 to 1844 Seliminski studied medicine in

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. After that he traveled to

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(1845) and practiced as a medical doctor in Bucharest, Braila and Bessarabia until the end of his life (1845–1866).

References

# М. Арнаудов, Д-р Иван Селимински, Български образи, София, Хемус (1944) # Ц. Кристанов, И. Пенаков, С. Маслев, Д-р Иван Селимиски, София, БАН (1962) # Д-р Иван Селимински, Избрани съчинения, София, Наука и изкуство (1979) # М. Борисов, Д-р Иван Селимински и физиката. – Природа, № 5, 79–86 (1983) # М. Борисов, А. Ваврек, Г. Камишева, Д-р Иван Селимински - основоположник на обучението по физика у нас и пропагандатор на физическите науки и тяхното значение, Предшественици на разпространението и развитието на физическите науки в България, София, изд. Народна Просвета (1985) с. 67-127 {{DEFAULTSORT:Seliminski, Ivan 1799 births 1866 deaths Bulgarian philosophers Bulgarian schoolteachers 19th-century Bulgarian physicians Writers from Sliven Bulgarian expatriates in Romania Bulgarian memoirists 19th-century memoirists