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Bulgarian lawyer, diplomat, and politician
Venelin Yordanov Ganev
(
Bulgarian
:
Венелин Йорданов Ганев
; 16 February 1880 – 25 March 1966) was a
Bulgarian
lawyer, diplomat, and politician. He was a leading authority on
commercial law
, and after the
Communist coup d'etat
on 9 September 1944 was
one of the regents
of underage tsar
Simeon II
.
Biography
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Venelin Ganev was born on 16 February 1880 (or old-style 4 February) in
Rousse
, Bulgaria. He studied in
Leipzig
and
Geneva
, where
Simeon Radev
was a fellow-student of his. After returning to Bulgaria, Ganev taught philosophy of law (1908–1947) at
Sofia University
.
In 1908 Venelin Ganev joined the Radical-Democratic Party. In 1919 he was the Minister of Justice in
Teodor Teodorov
's second cabinet, and took part in the Bulgarian delegation for peace negotiations in
Paris
(before the
Treaty of Neuilly
). Afterwards, he served as a Bulgarian ambassador to
France
(1920–1922).
Venelin Ganev joined the newly formed
Democratic Accord
in 1923, along with most of the Radical-democratic Party. In 1925, he quit it and declared himself against the government's policy. Later, he established a League for Protection of Human Rights. During
World War II
he participated as an independent member in the
Fatherland Front
and entered its leadership. After the coup of 9 September 1944, he became a regent of tsar Simeon II, together with
Todor Pavlov
and
Tsvetko Boboshevski
, and he remained such until the fall of monarchy on 18 September 1946.
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From 1945, Venelin Ganev opposed the increasing influence of the
Bulgarian Communist Party
and joined the opposition. In 1947 he was dismissed from his position at the
University of Sofia
and interned in
Dryanovo
(until 1956), and in 1948 he was expelled from the
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
. In 1991 he was posthumously restored to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Publications
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- Chopin
(1919)
- Historical development of commercial law
(1921)
- A course in common law theory. Introduction. Methodology of law
(1921–1932, 1946)
- A course in commercial law
(1923)
- A course in common law theory. Legal phenomenon
(1925)
- A systematic course in
[the study of]
bankruptcy
, volume I (1926)
- A textbook in common law theory
(in two volumes; 1932–1938)
- Economic reality. An essay of a sociological synthesis
(1945)
- Democracy
(1946)
- Zakon soudnyi lyudym
. Legal-historical and legal-analythic research
(1959)
Notes
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- ^
Chary, Frederick B.
(2011).
The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations: The History of Bulgaria
. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO LLC. p. 117.
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