Alexander Exarch

Alexander Exarch (Bulgarian: Александър Екзарх, 1810 – 27 September 1891) was a Bulgarian revivalist, publicist and journalist, active participant in the struggle for an independent Bulgarian Exarchate.

Alexander Exarch Александър Стоилов Боев AlexanderStoilov Boev
Born	1810 (1810) Stara Zagora, Ottoman Empire
Died	27 September 1891(1891-09-27) (aged 80–81) Sofia, Principality of Bulgaria

It comes from a wealthy family. He studied in Bucharest, Budapest, Munich. From 1836 he was in Paris, where he first studied mathematics, and later, with Ottoman state scholarship - medicine (1839 - 1841).

In 1841, he accompanied as a translator Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui, sent by the French government to investigate the consequences of the Niš rebellion (1841). Blanqui reflects it in his diary as Bulgarian, pointing to Niš as the capital of Bulgaria. He strongly opposes the insinuation of Ioannis Kolettis (at that time the Greek ambassador to Paris) that the uprising was Greek. In 1842 - 1846, he sent several memoirs (memos) to the Western European governments to improve the situation of the Bulgarians.[1]

With financial assistance from Russia, he published in Constantinople the Bulgarian „Constantinople newspaper” (1848 - 1862), whose editor-in-chief was between 1850 and 1860.

After the Liberation of Bulgaria he was twice a candidate for Head of State (Prince) of Bulgaria (1879, 1886).[2]