Dobri Daskalov

Dobri Daskalov
Dobri Daskalov
Native name	Добри Даскалов
Born	13 October 1882; Kavadarci Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia)
Died	16 June 1912; Kavadarci Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia)
Cause of death	Assassination order by Todor Aleksandrov
Allegiance	IMRO ;
Battles / wars	Macedonian Struggle Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising; ; Balkan Wars Tikves Uprising; ;

Dobri Daskalov (13 October 1882 – 16 June 1912) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, member and voivode of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.^[1]^[2]^[3] In today North Macedonia, he is regarded an Ethnic Macedonian.^[4]^[5]

Biography

Dobri Daskalov was born in Kavadarci into a Protestant clerical family. He studied at the Bulgarian Junior High School in Kavadarci and then continued his education in Samokov, Bulgaria, where Daskalov studied at the American Missionary Protestant School.^[6] In the 1896/1897 school year, he enrolled in the State Ironwork School, together with Petar Samardzhiev and Petar Yurukov. There he began his revolutionary activity and became a member of the revolutionary circle "Trayko Kitanchev". Daskalov became a member of TMORO in 1901 and was a fighter in the bands of Jane Sandanski and Hristo Chernopeev. He took part in the Miss Stone Affair.^[7] In the Ilinden Uprising, he fought in the Tikvesh. In 1904 he participated at the local Prilep congress of TMORO, and in 1905 — in the general Rila congress. On 13 June 1905 he took part in a battle with the Ottoman army in the village of Resava. After the split of the Organization in 1907, he participated in the congress of the rightist faction held in Kyustendil in 1908. After the Young Turk Revolution, in 1909 he was one of the founders of the People's Federative Party (Bulgarian Section) and a member of its central leadership.^[4]

He was assassinated in Kavadarci on 16 June 1912 on the order of Todor Aleksandrov. ^[8]^[9]

References

^ Добрин Мичев, Национално-освободителното движение на македонските и тракийските българи, 1878-1944, Том 2, 1994, Македонски научен институт, стр. 154.
^ Величко Георгиев, Стайко Трифонов, История на българите 1878-1944 в документи. 1994, том 1, Просвета, стр. 479.
^ The political and military leaders of the Slavs of Macedonia at the turn of the century seem not to have heard Misirkov's call for a separate Macedonian national identity; they continued to identify themselves in a national sense as Bulgarian rather than Macedonians.[...] In spite of their political differences, both groups, including those who advocated an independent Macedonian state and opposed the idea of a greater Bulgaria, never seem to have doubted "the predominantly Bulgarian character of the population of Macedonia." For more see: Danforth, Loring M. (1997). The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0691043566.
^ ^a ^b Енциклопедија ВМРО, Скопје, 2015, стр. 164
^ During the Ottoman period, the IMRO was named, most of the time, Secret Macedono-Adrianopolitan Organization, and, after 1905, Internal Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organization (VMORO). It was active not only in Macedonia but also in Thrace – in the Vilayet of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Turkey). This fact is still difficult to explain from a Macedonian historiographic viewpoint: it suggests that Macedonian revolutionaries in the Ottoman period did not differentiate between ‘ethnic Macedonians’ and ‘ethnic Bulgarians’ from Thrace. Moreover, as their own writings attest, they often saw themselves as ‘Bulgarians’ (or ‘Macedonian Bulgarians’) and wrote in standard Bulgarian rather than in the Macedonian dialect. On this topic, see Ulf Brunnbauer, “History, myths and the nation in the Republic of Macedonia”, in (Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism, ed. Ulf Brunnbauer (Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2004).
^ Енциклопедичен речник Кюстендил (А-Я). София, Общински народен съвет, Регионален център по култура. Издателство на Българската академия на науките, 1988. ISBN 954-90993-1-8. с. 165.
^ Laura Beth Shermanр Fires on the Mountain. The Macedonian Revolutionary Movement and the Kidnapping of Ellen Stone, 1980, East European Monographs, ISBN 9780914710554, p. 102.
^ Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация: Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934): Биографично-библиографски справочник. София, Издателство „Звезди“, 2001. ISBN 954-9514-28-5. с. 43.
^ Милан Матов „Комитата раскажува“, Скопје, 2002, 244 стр.

[1] Добрин Мичев, Национално-освободителното движение на македонските и тракийските българи, 1878-1944, Том 2, 1994, Македонски научен институт, стр. 154.

[2] Величко Георгиев, Стайко Трифонов, История на българите 1878-1944 в документи. 1994, том 1, Просвета, стр. 479.

[3] The political and military leaders of the Slavs of Macedonia at the turn of the century seem not to have heard Misirkov's call for a separate Macedonian national identity; they continued to identify themselves in a national sense as Bulgarian rather than Macedonians.[...] In spite of their political differences, both groups, including those who advocated an independent Macedonian state and opposed the idea of a greater Bulgaria, never seem to have doubted "the predominantly Bulgarian character of the population of Macedonia." For more see: Danforth, Loring M. (1997). The Macedonian conflict: ethnic nationalism in a transnational world. Princeton University Press. p. 64. ISBN 0691043566.

[:0-4] Енциклопедија ВМРО, Скопје, 2015, стр. 164

[5] During the Ottoman period, the IMRO was named, most of the time, Secret Macedono-Adrianopolitan Organization, and, after 1905, Internal Macedono-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organization (VMORO). It was active not only in Macedonia but also in Thrace – in the Vilayet of Adrianople (modern Edirne in Turkey). This fact is still difficult to explain from a Macedonian historiographic viewpoint: it suggests that Macedonian revolutionaries in the Ottoman period did not differentiate between ‘ethnic Macedonians’ and ‘ethnic Bulgarians’ from Thrace. Moreover, as their own writings attest, they often saw themselves as ‘Bulgarians’ (or ‘Macedonian Bulgarians’) and wrote in standard Bulgarian rather than in the Macedonian dialect. On this topic, see Ulf Brunnbauer, “History, myths and the nation in the Republic of Macedonia”, in (Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism, ed. Ulf Brunnbauer (Münster: Lit-Verlag, 2004).

[6] Енциклопедичен речник Кюстендил (А-Я). София, Общински народен съвет, Регионален център по култура. Издателство на Българската академия на науките, 1988. ISBN 954-90993-1-8. с. 165.

[7] Laura Beth Shermanр Fires on the Mountain. The Macedonian Revolutionary Movement and the Kidnapping of Ellen Stone, 1980, East European Monographs, ISBN 9780914710554, p. 102.

[8] Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация: Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934): Биографично-библиографски справочник. София, Издателство „Звезди“, 2001. ISBN 954-9514-28-5. с. 43.

[:1-9] Милан Матов „Комитата раскажува“, Скопје, 2002, 244 стр.

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