Daskal Kamche

Kamche Nakov Popangelov
Born	c. 1790 Koreshnitsa, Ottoman Empire
Died	c. 1848 [1] Vatasha, Ottoman Empire
Other names	Daskal Kamche

Kamche Nakov Popangelov (Bulgarian: Камче Наков Попангелов) (c. 1790 – c. 1848), widely known as Daskal Kamche (Bulgarian: Даскал Камче) was a Bulgarian teacher, printer and engraver, founder of one of the first printing houses for books in Bulgarian in the Ottoman Empire.

Biography

Daskal Kamche was born in the village of Koreshnitsa, which is close to Demir Kapija, a town in the Tikvesh region of Macedonia. He went as a pilgrim to the monasteries in Mount Athos, where he eventually stayed for one year. After he came back from Saint Aton, he became a taksidiot-monk for some of the monasteries in Tikvesh.

Daskal Kamche started to work as a teacher in the village of Vatasha in 1828. With financial help from Yovcho Markov, he purchased a printing press of type Gutenberg and installed it in Vatasha. Daskal Kamche used the press for about a year, until he was expelled from Vatasha by the local Greek eparch. His priting press eventually found its way to Solun, where it was used by Teodosiy Sinaitski for his printing office. After the printing office in Solun was also closed down, Daskal Kamche found its way back to Vatasha, where he remained a teacher until the end of his life. He was known as an opponent to the use of Greek in the local Bulgarian schools and churches.

Sources

• Encyclopedia Bulgaria, volume 2, Publishing house of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1981. (in Bulgarian): # Енциклопедия България, том 2, Издателство на БАН, София, 1981).
• Historical Dictionary of Macedonia, Skopje, 2000, p. 142. (in Macedonian: Македонски историски речник, Скопје, 2000, с. 142).

References

1. ^ According to some source he died between 1848 and 1855 - see Historical Dictionary of Macedonia Skopje 2000, p. 142 (Македонски историски речник, Скопје 2000, с. 142)

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Name	Popangelov, Kamche Nakov
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Date of birth	1790
Place of birth	Koreshnitsa, Ottoman Empire
Date of death	1848
Place of death	Vatasha, Ottoman Empire