Българи в американските учебни заведения в Цариград (от Освобождението до началото на XX век)
Bulgarians in the American Educational Establishments in Constantinople (From the Liberation to the Beginning of the 20th Century)

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the role and importance of the American colleges in Constantinople in the formation of Bulgarian cadres with modern education. Attention focuses on questions that have not been researched yet or have been very cursorily examined: the attitude in Bulgaria towards these establishments of learning, the names of the Bulgarians who studied there, the real value of the training received there, etc. It is established that the “Bulgarian presence” in the American college in Constantinople during the period under review amounted to 600–700 persons, while some 100 Bulgarians studied in the USA. Bulgarian-American connections in the sphere of education, therefore, expanded considerably, and marked credit for that must go precisely to the establishments in question. A great part of the Bulgarians trained at the American Robert College in Constantinople went on with their education at European universities. This shows that the College was one of the major foreign centres of learning through which for part of the emerging Bulgarian intelligentsia passed the road to the cultural values of Europe. The expansion of Bulgarian-American connections in the sphere of education was not evaluated in the same way in Bulgaria’s post-Liberation society: it met with resistance of certain Russophil and church circles.

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