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Bulgarian politician and historian
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Male
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Birth:
(Kotel)
Death:
16 November 1898(Istanbul)
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Biography
Gavril Krastevich (Bulgarian: Гаврил Кръстевич) was a Bulgarian politician and historian, and the first translator of Benjamin Franklin into Bulgarian. He was born in Kotel in 1813.
He was Governor General of Eastern Rumelia between 1884 and 1885 when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. Krastevich died in Istanbul on 16 November 1898.
Honorary member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.