Stjepan Verković

==Work==

==Work==

During the years he lived in Ottoman Empire, Verković proved to be a scientist in the field of folklore, ethnography and geography. He regularly supplied also coins from the area to Copenhagen, Paris, London and the [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]]. He еstablished intensive contacts with dozens of [[Bulgarian National Revival|Bulgarian national movement]] activists, becoming their associate. Verković noted in the foreword of ”Folk Songs” that the title was chosen because the locals identified themselves as Bulgarian.<ref>Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, 1988, {{ISBN|0801494931}}, p. 310.</ref> After 1868 he became increasingly [[Bulgarophile]], disassociating from his given political mission. In addition, owing to his collector’s zeal, Verkovich saved a great number of old manuscripts, coins, objects of art, etc. His main and largest work is the mysticist{{sfn|Vojvodić|1979|p=237}} ”[[Veda Slovena]]” in two volumes, 1874 and 1881,<ref>Веда Словена и нашето време, Иван Богданов, Издател Университетско изд-во “Св. Климент Охридски”, 1991, стр. 17.</ref> which claimed to have contained “Bulgarian folk songs of the pre-historical and pre-Christian times, discovered in Thrace and Macedonia”. He despaired at the increasing distrust on his life’s work, ”Veda Slovena”, which many took to be a hoax. With the cooperation of government, he settled in [[Plovdiv]] from where he undertook in 1892–1893, two trips among the [[Pomaks]] in the Western [[Rhodopes]], trying to prove the authenticity of his Bulgarian folk songs collection, but the mission failed. He prepared a subsequent manuscript to publish also the third volume of ”Veda Slovena”. However, without financial support he deceased in Sofia several months later.

During the years he lived in Ottoman Empire, Verković proved to be a scientist in the field of folklore, ethnography and geography. He regularly supplied also coins from the area to Copenhagen, Paris, London and the [[Hermitage Museum|Hermitage]]. He еstablished intensive contacts with dozens of [[Bulgarian National Revival|Bulgarian national movement]] activists, becoming their associate. Verković noted in the foreword of ”Folk Songs” that the title was chosen because the locals identified themselves as Bulgarian.<ref>Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, 1988, {{ISBN|0801494931}}, p. 310.</ref> After 1868 he became increasingly [[Bulgarophile]], disassociating from his given political mission. In addition, owing to his collector’s zeal, Verkovich saved a great number of old manuscripts, coins, objects of art, etc. His main and largest work is the mysticist{{sfn|Vojvodić|1979|p=237}} ”[[Veda Slovena]]” in two volumes, 1874 and 1881,<ref>Веда Словена и нашето време, Иван Богданов, Издател Университетско изд-во “Св. Климент Охридски”, 1991, стр. 17.</ref> which claimed to have contained “Bulgarian folk songs of the pre-historical and pre-Christian times, discovered in Thrace and Macedonia”. He despaired at the increasing distrust on his life’s work, ”Veda Slovena”, which many took to be a hoax. With the cooperation of government, he settled in [[Plovdiv]] from where he undertook in 1892–1893, two trips among the [[Pomaks]] in the Western [[Rhodopes]], trying to prove the authenticity of his Bulgarian folk songs collection, but the mission failed. He prepared a subsequent manuscript to publish also the third volume of ”Veda Slovena”. However, without financial support he in Sofia several months later.

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