Ivan Hadzhinikolov

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Ivan Atanasov Hadzhinikolov (Bulgarian: Иван Атанасов Хаджиниколов, Macedonian: Иван Атанасов Хаџи Николов, romanized: Ivan Atanasov Hadži Nikolov; December 24, 1861 – July 9, 1934) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, teacher and bookseller. He was among the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) on October 23, 1893.

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Biography Ivan Hadzhinikolov was born in Kukush, Ottoman Empire, on December 24, 1861. He received elementary and secondary education in Kukush, Plovdiv and Svishtov. Then Hadzhinikolov graduated in higher education at commerce in Linz. After that he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in Kostenets, Edessa, Kukush and Thessaloniki. In 1876, he created a revolutionary youth group. From 1888 to 1892, he taught arithmetic and bookkeeping at the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki. Hadzhinikolov was a member of the Young Macedonian Literary Society. In June 1892, he met with Kosta Shahov and Gotse Delchev in Sofia and discussed with them his idea of founding a revolutionary organization in Ottoman Macedonia. With his return to Thessaloniki in 1893, he became involved in the book trade, opening his own bookstore in the city. On October 23, 1893, he was one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) in Thessaloniki. The meeting occurred in his house. He claimed that he was the first person to have considered an organization like IMRO, writing that it was established to "neutralize the foreign propaganda in Macedonia", especially the "activities of the Serbian agitators" (Serbian propaganda), and preserve the "Bulgarian national feeling in Macedonia".…Citește mai mult