Karanov, Ephraim Cvetkov (Kratovo, 28. 1852 – Kyustendil> 6. 1927) – Educated Dean, writer, historian, folklorist, ethnographer, translator, teacher and revolutionary activist. Ends primacy in Constantinople (1867) and classical gymnasium in Odessa (1872), and Slavic philology at the Separate University (Odessa, 1874). He works as a teacher in Stip (1875-1877), but the Turks swamped him from fear of not being a Moscow agent. From 1881 to 1886 He is a teacher at the Kyustendil Secondary Pedagogical School. At that time it develops active social and scientific activity. He hangs out with Trajko Kitancev, and close ties hold with Goce Delchev, Jane Sandanski and especially with his disciple Dimo Hadzi Dimov. He was a member of the BDK (Bulgarian Bookholder, later the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), from 1875 correspondence, and from 1884 full-time member. After leaving for Bulgaria (1878) Teaches in many places (Kyustendil, Samokov, Sofia). He established and managed by the Macedonian Brotherhood in Kyustendil (1895), participates in the preparation of the FPMOP, and is close to the revolutionary Mr. Delchev. It deals with collecting folklore material, old manuscripts and books, old coins, etc. As an associate in the “Perial Magazine” and “Zhezhevennik for People’s Employment, Science and Browse” publish a part of the collected folklore-ethnographic material, and the planned prepared chase of songs and prose folk resources from Kratovo and Kratovo, after longer printing efforts, is not Published. He is the author of several studies, as well as the short monograph of Rush Duke (Sofia, 1886) and “memories”. Great attention in the then literary and scientific circles cause his translations (on Kratovo speech) of the Russian epic “Word for the regiment Iorev” (Kyustendil, 1900) and the Mickieva “Pan Tadeusch” (Sofia, 1901). Exhibition: SLNA, Sofia (ⅱ, 1890, 60-64; ⅹⅴ, 74-75, 82); “Periodican magazine of the Bulgarian Bookholder”, and 11 and 12, Braila, 1876, 124-129, 169-178; Penaigal magazine of the Bulgarian Bookholder in Sadter (REC. 5, 1883, 116-123; REC. 9, 129-134; REC. 16, 153-160). BIB.: Selected socket, order. Zheho Popov, Sofia, 1991; Bogdan hero (1886) and Rush Duke (1886); Kratovo Collection. Reduction Blaze Petrovski, Skopje, 2000. Lit.: Dr. Tome Sazdov, studies on Macedonian folk literature, Skopje, 1980. B. R.-J. and V. M.-
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