Димитър Тончев – опит за политически портрет
Dimitar Tonchev – Attempt at a Political Portrait

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the life and socio-political career of Dimitar Tonchev (1859–1937).It follows up his first steps in the political field in Eastern Roumelia, his participation in the formation of the Liberal Party after the Reunification (1885) as one of the leaders of the South Bulgarian Liberals, in the United Legal Opposition and as leader of the Young Liberal Party from 1904 to 1920. Dimitar Tonchev was minister in eight Bulgarian cabinets and chairman of the 3rd Grand National Assembly (1887) that elected Ferdinand as Bulgarian Prince. As minister in the cabinet of Dr Vassil Radoslavov (1913–1918) he was sentenced by the Third State Court in 1923. In 1898 Tonchev was elected corresponding member and from 1900 he was regular member of the Bulgarian Learned Society (now the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). He was the author of numerous works on jurisprudence, including his Commentary on the Law of Obligations and Contracts in eight volumes, Commentary of the law of Inheritance in six volumes, etc. He was decorated with the Order for Civil Merit, the “St. Alexander” Order, etc.

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