Dr. Petur Beron, a member of the…
1840 CE to 1851 CE
Dr. Petur Beron, a member of the Bulgarian emigrant community in Romania, had published the first primer in colloquial Bulgarian in 1824.
His book also explained a new system of secular education to replace the outdated precepts of monastery pedagogy, and Beron' s suggestions strongly influence the development of Bulgarian education in the nineteenth century.
In 1835 a school had opened in Gabrovo according to Beron 's design.
Under direction of the monk Neofit Rilski, it was the first school to teach in Bulgarian.
Similar schools had opened in the ensuing years, and in 1840 the first school for girls opens in Pleven.
Education grows especially fast in trading towns such as Koprivshtitsa and Kalofer in the foothills of the Balkans, where textiles and other trades create a wealthy merchant class.
In the 1840s, the first generation of Western-educated Bulgarians returns home.
Forming a cosmopolitan intelligentsia, they diversify and expand Bulgarian schools in the following decades.
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