Geo Milev^[a] (bornGeorgi Milev Kasabov;^[b] 15 January [O.S. 27 January] 1895 – 15 May 1925) was aBulgarianpoet,translator, andjournalist. He is perhaps best known for his epic poemSeptemvri, written during the BulgarianSeptember Uprising.

Geo Milev
Born	Georgi Milev Kasabov (1895-01-15)January 15, 1895 Radnevo,Bulgaria
Died	May 15, 1925 (aged 30) Sofia
Occupation	Translator, poet, journalist
Nationality	Bulgarian
Notable works	Septemvri
Spouse	Mila Keranova (married 1919–1925)
Children	Leda, Bistra
Parents	Milyo and Anastasia Milevi

Geo Milev was born Georgi Milev Kasabov in Radne mahale, todayRadnevo, the first son in the family of school teachers Milyo^[c] and Anastasia^[d] Kasabovi. In 1897 the family moved toStara Zagora, where his father started a publishing business in 1907. Geo Milev attended the town's high school from 1907 to 1911 before he went on to study at the Faculty of Philology ofSofia University.^[1] From 1912 Geo Milev continued his education at the Faculty of Philosophy ofLeipzig University, where he was introduced to GermanExpressionism. On 30 July 1914, two days after the outbreak of theFirst World War, he traveled from Leipzig to London, where he spent several months sightseeing and improving his English and met the BelgianSymbolist poetÉmile Verhaeren. On returning to Germany, Geo Milev was detained in Hamburg on 18 October 1914 on suspicion of being an English spy. He was released after eleven days and returned to Leipzig, where he worked on hisuniversity thesis onRichard Dehmel. On 8 August 1915 he returned to Bulgaria without having obtained adegree. Beginning in 1916 he fought inWorld War I, where he was severely injured. After recuperating inBerlin he began to collaborate with the magazineAktion. Upon his return to Bulgaria he started to publish the Bulgarianmodernist magazineВезни (Scales), in Sofia. He contributed to the publication as a translator, theatre reviewer, director and editor of anthologies.

On May 15, 1925, in the course of government reprisals following theSt Nedelya Church assault, Geo Milev, a member of theBulgarian Communist party, was taken to a police station for a "short interrogation" from which he never returned. His fate remained unknown for 30 years. In 1954 during the trial of GeneralIvan Valkov and a group of former police and military executioners, one of the defendants confessed how victims of the 1925 purge had been executed and where they were buried. Geo Milev had been strangled with wire and then buried in a mass grave in Ilientsi, near Sofia. His skull was found in the mass grave. His body was identified by the glass eye he was wearing after he lost his right eye in World War I.

His daughter was the writer and diplomatLeda Mileva.

He published his most famous poemSeptember in his magazineПламък (Flame) in 1924. It describes the brutal suppression of theBulgarian uprising of September 1923 against the military coup d'état of June 1923.

• Milev, Geo,September, Brussel, 1984

In Bulgarian

• Жестокият пръстен (1920), The Cruel Ring
• Експресионистично календарче за 1921 (1921), A Little Expressionist Calendar for the Year 1921
• Панахида за поета П. К. Яворов (1922), The Commemoration Ceremony for the Poet P. K. Javorov
• Иконите спят, (1922), The Icons Sleep

Milev Rocks in theSouth Shetland Islands,Antarctica are named after Geo Milev.

• Texts in Bulgarian