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Draft:Kosta Grupchev

Konstantin (Kosta, Koče) Angelov Grupčev (Serbian Cyrillic: Коста Групчевић; in Macedonian literary standard: Коста Групче) is a Macedonian activist and Serb, considered one of the early Macedonianists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.[1]

Biography

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Kosta Grupčević was born in 1848 in the city of Ohrid, then in the Ottoman Empire. It belongs to the large genus Grupchevi or Grupche in the dialect of the region. He is the son of the revivalist Angel Grupčev, a close associate of Grigor Perličev, and Katerina Grupčeva, and is the youngest of seven children. He studied under Grigor Perličev in a Greek school. At the age of 16, he went to Romania, then to Vienna, but through Trieste he returned to the Ottoman Empire. He is engaged in confectionery together with his brother. In 1885, he left Ohrid and became a student at Sofia University and became a member of the St. Kliment student educational society. The same year together with Naum Evrov, Temko Popov and Vasili Karajovov they created the Secret Macedonian Committee. In 1886, they again founded the Serbo-Macedonians in Constantinople. In August 1886, in Belgrade, he met Milutin Garašanin, from whom he received instructions to fight the Bulgarians in North Macedonia. On his way to Constantinople, he was arrested by the Bulgarian authorities as a Russian spy and imprisoned in Stara Zagora for three months. After pressure from the Serbian and Russian ambassadors, he was released, but against a signature. In April 1887, he left Plovdiv for Sofia and fled through Romania to Constantinople and placed himself at the disposal of Stojan Novaković. Grupchev is one of the most active Serbian figures in Constantinople, a frequent visitor to the Serbian embassy and with a great contribution to obtaining the two bers for Serbian bishops in Macedonia. He tried unsuccessfully to get a Macedonian newspaper Macedonski Glas published (1887) and translated a primer into the Macedonian dialect, which remained in manuscript (1888). From August 1892, he managed the Tsarigrad Central Serbian Bookstore for the supply of Serbian booksellers in Turkey. In 1892-1893 he taught Greek at the Constantinople Serbian High School and worked as a translator from Greek at the Serbian embassy (1894). Between 1895 and 1907, Kosta Grupchev was the administrator of the weekly newspaper Tsarigradski glasnik, an organ of the Serbian diplomatic representation, and from 1897 its director.[2] It says "About Ohrid and Lake Ohrid".[3] He is a holder of the Serbian awards: Order of Saint Sava, Cross of the Holy Sepulcher, the Order of Danilo and the Turkish Mejidie III degree (1897). He is married to Efrosina (Frosa) Gavrilova, daughter of Pope Anastas Gavrilov. Their son Dimitrije Grupčević (1884 - 1942) was an official in the Serbian Foreign Ministry.[4][5]

He died on 3 February 1907 in Constantinople.[1]

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