Georgi Stranski was born on in
Kalofer, a
Sub-Balkan town in
Rumelia, or the
European part of the
Ottoman Empire (today in central
Bulgaria). In 1864, he moved to
Bucharest, at the time the capital of the autonomous United Principalities of
Wallachia and
Moldavia. In Bucharest, Stranski finished a medical school and graduated in
medicine from the
University of Bucharest in 1874. He remained in Romania as a professional physician, practicing in
Buzău and Bucharest. In 1876, he published the book
Medical Lectures. While residing in Romania, Stranski was a prominent member of the sizable
Bulgarian diaspora there and among the founding members of two of its organizations, the Bulgarian Philanthropic Trusteeship and the Bulgarian Central Charity Society. He was particularly close to his townsman, revolutionary and
national poet Hristo Botev (1848–1876), to whom he was
best man. During the Provisional Russian Government of the Bulgarian lands that preceded the establishment of a Bulgarian government, Stranski was the regional doctor of
Pleven. Stranski's political career began with his election to the Constituent Assembly of 1879 and the 1st Ordinary
National Assembly of Bulgaria of the same year. In 1879 he settled in
Plovdiv, the capital of autonomous
Eastern Rumelia, where he continued his medical career and became one of the leaders of the Liberal Party of Eastern Rumelia. He held various high offices in the autonomous province, including Director of Finance (1880–1881), member of the Permanent Committee (1879–1880, 1882–1883) and its chairman (1883–1884), and chairman of the provincial
legislative body, the Regional Assembly (1883). As a member of the Bulgarian Secret Central Revolutionary Committee, Stranski was among the most prominent participants in the organization of the Bulgarian unification of 1885, or the accession of Eastern Rumelia to the
Principality of Bulgaria. Following the successful accomplishment of the unification, Stranski became the chairman of the province's provisional government, titled Commissar of South Bulgaria. He held the office until the international recognition of the unification on 5 April 1886 by the Treaty of Tophane and the first National Assembly elections in
South Bulgaria in the summer of that year. After the Bulgarian victory in the
Serbo–Bulgarian War, Georgi Stranski was appointed Bulgarian diplomatic agent in
Belgrade (1886–1887). In
Konstantin Stoilov's short-lived government of 1887, Stranski was Minister of Internal Affairs, succeeding
Vasil Radoslavov. Under
Stefan Stambolov, Stranski held the office of
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religious Denominations (1887–1890), a post he took over from
Grigor Nachovich. He was also elected to parliament in the 5th (1887–1890) and 6th (1890–1893) Ordinary National Assembly. Following Stambolov's resignation, Stranski continued his career as a doctor: in 1897–1899 he directed the
Aleksandrovska Hospital in
Sofia, and in 1899–1900 he was the regional doctor of
Ruse. Between 1900 and 1904, Georgi Stranski presided over Bulgaria's Supreme Chamber of Control, the national
audit institution. He died on in Sofia. ==Honors==