Revolutionary Ivan Kasabov

Ivan Hristov Kasabov was a Bulgarian revolutionary, lawyer and publicist born in 1837 in Lyaskovets. He studied at the Daskalolivnitsa teacher-training school in Elena and later in Belgrade, where he studied law. In the 1860s he became associated with Georgi Rakovski and became his closest collaborator. He helped publish the newspaper "Dunavski Lebed" (Danubian Swan) and became involved in organising the First Bulgarian Legion. After the legion's failure he went to Vienna, where he graduated in law, and later settled in Romania, where he taught and practised as a lawyer.

In 1866 a conflict arose between him and Rakovski, regarded as an ideological dispute. Afterwards, Kasabov led the Secret Central Bulgarian Committee (SCBC), edited the newspaper "Narodnost" (Nationality) and actively participated in the Bulgarian Society and Young Bulgaria. In 1892 he graduated in law from the Free University of Brussels. He was also a delegate to the Eighth Macedonian-Adrianople Congress in April 1901.

After the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee (BRCC) was established, he withdrew from political life but maintained links with the revolutionary emigrant community. As a lawyer in Bucharest, he frequently helped Bulgarian revolutionary exiles pursued by the Romanian police. Ivan Hristov Kasabov died in Sofia in 1911.