Between Commercial Entrepreneurship and Scientific Publicist and Political Field: Features of Stoyan Pranchov’s Short Life (1862–1889)

Margarita Marinova ()
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Margarita Marinova: International Business School - Botevgrad, Bulgaria

Proceedings of the Centre for Economic History Research, 2021, vol. 6, 296-309

Abstract: The article traces the life of Stoyan Georgiev Pranchov, heir of a wealthy Revival merchant family from Koprivshtitsa as an example of the realization of the second generation of merchants after the Liberation. It is stated that his upbringing, education and personal qualities provide him with an opportunity for a commercial career. He graduated from the Vienna Academy of Commerce and the Higher School of Science and Politics in Paris, where he formed his economic and political views. During his studies in Paris (1882–1884) he worked for the interests of his father’s commercial house in Vienna “G. S. Pranchov&Cie”. His motives for becoming an independent trader in Bulgaria, and not in Vienna, are emerging. The significance of his scientific and journalistic activity is analyzed and evaluated. It is concluded that under the influence of various factors – health, brutal struggles during the political crisis of 1886–1887, and others, he fails to unleash his entrepreneurial and scientific potential. He died at the age of 27.

Keywords: Stoyan Pranchov; commercial entrepreneurship; literary entrepreneurship trade; liberalism; science; politics; Vienna Academy of Commerce; trading house ‘Hr. P Tupchileshtov’; Plovdiv; Koprivshtitsa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N73 N93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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