# Dobri Chintulov

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{{Short description|Bulgarian poet, teacher and composer}}
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[[File:Dobri-Chintulov-house-entrance.jpg|thumb|The gate to the house of Dobri Chintulov in [Sliven](/source/Sliven)]]

'''Dobri Petrov Chintulov''' ({{langx|bg|Добри Петров Чинтулов}}) (1822 – 27 March 1886) was a [Bulgarian](/source/Bulgarians) poet, teacher and composer of the [Bulgarian National Revival](/source/Bulgarian_National_Revival) period.

Born in the town of [Sliven](/source/Sliven) (then in [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) [Thrace](/source/Thrace), today in [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)) in September 1822 to the family of a craftsman, Chintulov studied at the [Greek](/source/Greek_language) school in his hometown. Due to a lack of funds, however, he was forced to drop out and move to [Tarnovo](/source/Veliko_Tarnovo), where he worked and visited the local class school in 1838 for around six months. From there he set off to [Bucharest](/source/Bucharest), [Wallachia](/source/Wallachia), where he studied for a year and a half. Receiving a [scholarship](/source/scholarship) from the [Russia](/source/Russia)n government, Chintulov moved to [Odessa](/source/Odessa) in the [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire) in 1840, assisted by his fellow townsman Dimitar Diamandiev, living in [Brăila](/source/Br%C4%83ila). After a stay of several months in Brăila, Chintulov returned to Sliven in 1850 and worked as a teacher for seven years; he established a cultural centre (''[chitalishte](/source/chitalishte)''), joined the [Bulgarian Church struggle](/source/Bulgarian_Exarchate) and endorsed the idea of Bulgarian independence. In that period, he wrote a number of patriotic and revolutionary songs and poems, some of which became very popular and renowned as anthems of the revolution.

Provoking the animosity of the Turkophile and [Grecoman](/source/Grecomans) circles in Sliven who even attempted to assassinate him, Chintulov moved to [Yambol](/source/Yambol) in 1858 and worked there as a head teacher until 1861. From 1861 to 1871, he was back to Sliven as a head teacher. In 1871, he moved to [Istanbul](/source/Istanbul) ([Tsarigrad](/source/Tsarigrad)) as Sliven's representative for the creation of the [Bulgarian Exarchate's](/source/Bulgarian_Exarchate) statute. Upon returning to Sliven, he worked as a teacher once again for three years, but had to quit due to problems with his [sight](/source/Visual_perception).

Although ill and half-[blind](/source/blindness), Chintulov was among those who welcomed the [liberating](/source/liberation_of_Bulgaria) Russian forces in Sliven during the [Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878](/source/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)) on 17 November and held a speech. Receiving a [pension](/source/pension) until the end of his life, Chintulov died in Sliven on 27 March 1886, disappointed with the post-Liberation reality.

Chintulov's poetic legacy is not large in numbers, as only around 20 of his poems have survived: he had to burn his manuscripts twice. Only three of his songs have been published, but his works had a tremendous influence on the Bulgarian youth of the time and are still well known as classic Bulgarian revolutionary music. Three of his best known works are ''Rise Up, Rise Up, Balkan Hero'', ''The Wind is Resounding, the Mountain is Moaning'', and ''Where are you, Faithful Love of the People?''.

==Honours==

[Chintulov Ridge](/source/Chintulov_Ridge) on [Oscar II Coast](/source/Oscar_II_Coast) in [Graham Land](/source/Graham_Land), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica) is named after Dobri Chintulov.

==References==
* {{cite web|url=http://www.slovo.bg/showbio.php3?ID=155|title=Биографични бележки: Добри Чинтулов|publisher=Словото|language=Bulgarian|accessdate=2008-10-04}}
* {{cite book |title=Електронно издание "История на България" |language=Bulgarian |last=Бакалов |first=Георги |author2=Милен Куманов |publisher=Труд, Сирма |location=София |year=2003 |isbn=954528613X |chapter=ЧИНТУЛОВ, Добри Петров (IX.1822-27.III.1886)}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.slovo.bg/showauthor.php3?ID=155&LangID=1 Various works by Dobri Chintulov] {{in lang|bg}}

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Category:Bulgarian male poets
Category:Bulgarian schoolteachers
Category:1822 births
Category:1886 deaths
Category:Bulgarian educators

Category:Writers from Sliven
Category:19th-century Bulgarian poets
Category:19th-century Bulgarian male writers
Category:Blind educators
Category:Poets from the Ottoman Empire
Category:Educators from the Ottoman Empire

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