?nton Bezenshek - Slovenian pedagogue, stenographer, publicist; an eminent public figure. He came to Bulgaria after the Liberation (1878). He was the creator of Bulgarian stenography (shothand writing).
He was born in 1854, in the small Slovenian village Bukoviye, no far from the town of Tzelle. Bezenshek graduated from Zagreb University and later became a Professor of Philosophy. He became famous for adapting the Gabelsberg’s System of Stenography for the Slavonic languages, and was actually the founder and creator of BG Stenography.
Bezenshek came in 1879 to the then Principality of Bulgaria by an invitation of BG government, to work as a teacher in Sofia and Plovdiv, and he also performed as main stenographer of the National Assembly.
While living in Plovdiv, he published textbooks, books, booklets and postcards; he also was the publisher of the first high-school textbook of Ethics. He was also the first Chairman of the newly-founded Choral Society in Plovdiv (1896).