Ivan Bogorov

Educated in medicine, he also worked in the spheres of industry, economy, transport, geography, journalism and linguistics.

In Stara Zagora, he wrote the first Bulgarian grammar book, which he printed in Bucharest in 1844.

Bogorov returned to Istanbul, where he worked for the Tsarigradski Vestnik newspaper, and then moved to Paris to study medicine.

Bogorov was known as a passionate defender of linguistic purism, and in his attempts to counter Greek and Russian influence on Bulgarian he introduced a number of rare dialectal words and neologisms to the literary language.

[4] Although many of these were considered amusing and funny-sounding by his contemporaries, a large number have successfully become an inseparable part of Bulgarian vocabulary.