Vasil Aprilov

Infobox Person
name = Vasil Aprilov


caption = Bulgarian educator
birth_date = birth date|1789|7|21|df=y
birth_place = Gabrovo
dead=dead
death_date = death date and age|1847|10|2|1789|7|21|df=y
death_place = Galaţi, Moldavia (present-day Romania)

Vasil Evstatiev Aprilov ( _bg. Васил Евстатиев Априлов) (21 July 1789 - 2 October 1847) was a Bulgarian educator. He studied in Moscow, graduated from a high school in Braşov and then pursued a medical degree in Vienna. After 1811 he was a merchant in Odessa. He initially participated in the Greek revolutionary movement, but later devoted himself to the Bulgarian Renaissance. He gathered Bulgarian folk songs. In his will he left a large amount of money for building the Aprilovska High School in Gabrovo. This was to be the first Bulgarian secular school using the Bell-Lancaster method [cite book
last =Crampton
first =Richard J.
title =A Concise History of Bulgaria
publisher =Cambridge University Press
date =1997
pages =60-62
isbn =ISBN 052156719X ] . The emergence of this school gave a boost to Bulgarian education and soon other schools were opened all over the Bulgarian-populated regions of the Ottoman empire.

Aprilov Point on Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named for Vasil Aprilov.

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