Ivan Gologanov ( bg, Иван Гологанов) was a Bulgarian folklorist and ethnographer.

Biography

Ivan Iliev Gologanov was a

Bulgarian National Revival The Bulgarian National Revival ( bg, Българско национално възраждане, ''Balgarsko natsionalno vazrazhdane'' or simply: Възраждане, ''Vazrazhdane'', and tr, Bulgar ulus canlanması) sometimes called the Bu ...

activist, a brother of Theodosius Gologanov. Gologanov himself was fluent in ancient and modern Greek, he knew the Hellenic mythology in details. Gologanov became a collaborator of the pan-Slavic ethnographer and folklorist Stjepan Verković and is considered to be the author of the collection "

Veda Slovena ''Veda Slovena'' (Веда Словена in Modern Bulgarian, originally written as Веда Словенахъ) is an ethnographic collection of folk songs and legends of the Muslim Bulgarians; the subtitle of the book indicated that they wer ...

". At the request of Verkovic he collected folk songs, fairy tales, legends, etc., interrupting his work as Bulgarian teacher in the village of Krushevo. This had been going on for 12 years. However Verkovic issued the collected songs under his own name. This sensational Slavic Veda contained “Bulgarian folk songs of the pre-historical and pre-Christian times, discovered in Thrace and Macedonia”. The aim of Gologanov was to prove the ancient inhabitants of

Thrace Thrace (; el, Θράκη, Thráki; bg, Тракия, Trakiya; tr, Trakya) or Thrake is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe, now split among Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, which is bounded by the Balkan Mountains to t ...

and Macedonia were not ''Hellenic'' but ''Slav-Bulgarian''. In 1891 the Prime Minister

Stefan Stambolov Stefan Nikolov Stambolov ( bg, Стефан Николов Стамболов) (31 January 1854 OS– 19 July 1895 OS) was a Bulgarian politician, journalist, revolutionary, and poet who served as Prime Minister and regent. He is consider ...

, offered Gologanov to move to Sofia and promising him a pension, but he refused. At the same time Verkovic came to Bulgaria desperated by the increasing distrust of the "Veda Slovena". With the cooperation of government, he undertook two trips in the

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, trying to prove its authenticity, but his mission failed. Today analysts deny the credibility of Veda Slovena.János M. Bak, Patrick J. Geary, Gábor Klaniczay, Manufacturing a Past for the Present: Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe, BRILL, 2014, , p. XII. In 1893

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- general secretary of the

Bulgarian Exarchate The Bulgarian Exarchate ( bg, Българска екзархия, Balgarska ekzarhiya; tr, Bulgar Eksarhlığı) was the official name of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church before its autocephaly was recognized by the Ecumenical See in 1945 and th ...

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wrote about him:

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gologanov, Ivan 1839 births 1895 deaths Scholars from the Ottoman Empire People from Kato Nevrokopi Bulgarian folklorists Bulgarian ethnographers Macedonian Bulgarians Members of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church