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Neofit Rilski was born around 1793 in the town of Bansko in southwestern Bulgaria. He became a monk at the Rila Monastery. After studying and teaching at Rila, Neofit joined forces with the founders of the Gabrovo School, Vasil Aprilov and Nikolai Palauzov, and began to teach there using the Lancasterian method, a system of pedagogy developed by the English Quaker Joseph Lancaster (1778–1838). Gabrovo was the first secular school in Bulgaria. This grammar of the Greek language was published in 1835, the same year as Neofit’s famous ...