Nedelya Petkova

Nedelya Petkova (Bulgarian: Неделя Петкова) (1826 - 1894)[1] was a Bulgarian education pioneer.[2] In 1859 she began teaching girls and developed this into a school system for girls across the Bulgarian part of the Ottoman Empire, with hundreds of girls attending classes.

Nedelya Petkova.

Biography

She was born on August 13 in Sopot, Plovdiv Province in 1826. Nedelya Petkova, was also known as Grandma Nedelya or Baba Nedelya.[2] She studied in the monastery school of the “Holy presentation of the Blessed Virgin” convent in the town of Sopot. Later she was self-educated.

Nedelya Petkova began as a teacher in Sofia(1858 - 1861), Samokov(1862 - 1864), Kyustendil (1864 - 1865), Prilep(1865 - 1866), Ohrid(1868 - 1869), and Veles (1870 - 1871). She later founded the first Bulgarian girls’ schools in Prilep, Bitolya, Veles, and Thessaloniki.[3]

After the Liberation, she lived in Kyustendil (1878) and in Sofia(1879). In 1883 she settled in Rakitovo. Government officials tried to stop her and she was arrested and her home searched for seditious books. Although put on trial she was released through lack of evidence and continued her campaign to educate women until her death on January 1, 1894.[1]

Legacy

Nedelya Point on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Nedelya Petkova.

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References
  1. Zilboorg, Caroline, ed. (1997). Women's firsts. Detroit [u.a.]: Gale. p. 145. ISBN 0787601519.
  2. Neuburger, Mary C. (2012-10-04). Balkan smoke : tobacco and the making of modern Bulgaria. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. p. 24. ISBN 9780801450846.
  3. "Коя е Неделя Петкова". nu-sopot.com.
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