Tsvetan Radoslavov Hadzhidenkov (1863–1931) was a Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n teacher and the author of the current national anthem

National anthem

A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that evokes and eulogizes the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nation's government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people.- History :Anthems rose to prominence...

 of Bulgaria, Mila Rodino

Mila Rodino

Mila Rodino is the current national anthem of Bulgaria. It is based on the music and text of the song "Gorda Stara Planina" by Tsvetan Radoslavov, written and composed as he left to fight in the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. The anthem was adopted in 1964...

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Born in Svishtov

Svishtov

Svishtov is a town in northern Bulgaria, located in Veliko Tarnovo Province on the right bank of the Danube river opposite the Romanian town of Zimnicea. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Svishtov Municipality...

 in 1863, he graduated in philosophy

Philosophy

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 in Leipzig

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. In 1885, while en route to the battlefield during the Serbo-Bulgarian War

Serbo-Bulgarian War

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, Radoslavov composed the song Gorda Stara Planina, which was polished by the composer Dobri Hristov

Dobri Hristov

Dobri Hristov was one of the major Bulgarian composers of the 20th century. He wrote mainly choral music, as well as some church music and music for the orchestra....

 in 1905 and became a national anthem of Bulgaria in 1963 as Mila Rodino.

Besides creating the Bulgarian national anthem, Radoslavov was also a prominent scientist. He was one of the three Bulgarians (with Dr Krastyo Krastev

Krastyo Krastev

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 and Dimitar Aleksiev) that took their doctor's degree by the father of modern psychology

Psychology

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, Wilhelm Wundt

Wilhelm Wundt

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. Rejecting invitations to work as a teacher in Vienna

Vienna

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, Leipzig and Prague

Prague

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, he returned to Bulgaria to work at the Third High School for Boys in Sofia

Sofia

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, believing he was helping the development of modern Bulgaria by teaching students European and ancient languages, psychology, ethics

Ethics

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 and logic

Logic

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Radoslavov lived in a small apartment at 3 Angel Kanchev

Angel Kanchev

Angel Kanchev Angelov was a Bulgarian revolutionary from Tryavna.Kanchev was born in 1852 in the family of a master-builder. At first he studied in his hometown Tryavna and then in Ruse under the guidance of people like Pencho Slaveykov and Dragan Tsankov...

 Street, where he is today commemorated by a plaque by Georgi Chapkanov.