Hristo Batandzhiev

Hristo Batandzhiev
Born1869 (1869)
Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire
Died18 June 1913(1913-06-18) (aged 43–44)
Aegean Sea

Hristo Batandzhiev (Bulgarian: Христо Батанджиев, Macedonian: Христо Батанџиев; 1869 – 18 June 1913) was a Bulgarian teacher,[1][2] revolutionary,[3] and one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

Life

Batandzhiev was born in Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire (present-day Goumenissa, Greece).[4] He studied in Gyumendzhe and Thessaloniki.[5] Batandzhiev was a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school in Thessaloniki and secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city.[4][6] On 23 October 1893, he was one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).[7] Batandzhiev became a member of the Central Committee of IMRO without portfolio.[8] After the Young Turk Revolution from 1908, he was an active member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Party.[4] In 1909, he married Ekaterina Periklieva, a teacher at the Bulgarian Girls' High School of Thessaloniki.[9] After the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, Greek soldiers arrested him in Thessaloniki.[5] He was drowned by Greek soldiers on 18 June 1913 in Aegean Sea, being killed together with Archimandrite Eulogius, a leader of the Bulgarian Exarchist community in Thessaloniki.[5][4][10]

His son, Ivan Batandzhiev, was a Bulgarian sports figure, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Football Championship, chairman of the Bulgarian Football Union and trainer of the Bulgaria national football team. His grandson with the same name was a Bulgarian geologist.[11]

References

  1. ^ John B. Allcock (2000). Explaining Yugoslavia. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. p. 324. ISBN 9781850652779.
  2. ^ İpek Yosmaoğlu (2014). Blood Ties: Religion, Violence and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman Macedonia, 1878–1908. Cornell University Press. p. 27. ISBN 9780801452260.
  3. ^ Mercia MacDermott (1978). Freedom Or Death: The Life of Gotsé Delchev. Pluto Press. p. 99. ISBN 0904526321.
  4. ^ a b c d Dimitar Bechev (2009). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia. Scarecrow Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 0810855658.
  5. ^ a b c Македонска енциклопедија [Macedonian Encyclopedia] (in Macedonian). Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. 2009. p. 134-135.
  6. ^ Alexis Heraclides (2021). The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 9780429266362.
  7. ^ Denis Š. Ljuljanović (2023). Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire: State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878–1912). LIT Verlag Münster. p. 210. ISBN 9783643914460.
  8. ^ Duncan M. Perry (1988). The Politics of Terror: The Macedonian Liberation Movements, 1893-1903. Duke University Press. p. 39. ISBN 9780822308133.
  9. ^ Yura Konstantinova (2020). Българите в османския Солун (in Bulgarian). Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология – БАН. p. 252. ISBN 9786197179125.
  10. ^ Боян Николов Пенев; Валентин Китанов (1995). Сръбският шовинизъм (in Bulgarian). Македония прес. p. 97. ISBN 9789548823012.
  11. ^ Angel Kunov (2016). "Ст.н.с. д-р Иван Батанджиев на 80 години" (PDF). Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society (in Bulgarian). 77. Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: 111.

Sources

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  • Encyclopedia "Bulgaria", vol. 1, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1978 (in Bulgarian): Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978).


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