Dimitar Blagoev

In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Blagoev and the family name is Nikolov.
Dimitar Blagoev
Димитър Благоев
Born(1856-06-14)14 June 1856
Zagorichani, Ottoman Empire (present-day Vasileiada, Greece)
Died7 May 1924(1924-05-07) (aged 67)
Sofia, Bulgaria
Alma materSPbU
OccupationPolitician
Political partyBulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party
Bulgarian Communist Party
SpouseVela Blagoeva

Dimitar Blagoev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Димитър Благоев Николов, Macedonian: Димитар Благоев Николов; 14 June 1856 – 7 May 1924) was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher. He was the founder of the Bulgarian left-wing political movement and of the first social-democratic party in the Balkans,[1] the Marxist Bulgarian Social Democratic Party. Blagoev was also an important figure in the early history of Russian Marxism, and later founded and led the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was a prominent proponent of ideas for the establishment of a Balkan Federation. He is usually regarded and self-identified as a Bulgarian,[2][3] and occasionally as a Macedonian Slav.[4][5]

  1. ^ The Dissemination of Economic Ideas, Heinz D. Kurz, Keith Tribe, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, ISBN 0857935577, pp. 178-179.
  2. ^ Chris Kostov (2010) Contested Ethnic Identity. The Case of Macedonian Immigrants in Toronto, 1900-1996; Peter Lang, ISBN 9783034301961, p. 78.
  3. ^ In Short Notes on My Life Dimitar Blagoev gave the following information about his native village: I was born in the well-known Macedonian village of Zagorichane, Kostour district. It is a large, pure Bulgarian village, situated at the foothills of the southern spurs of the large mountain massif of Vich and on the brink of a large valley, stretching to the south of the village. in D. Blagoev, Works, vol. 19, Sofia, 1963, pp. 353-356; the original is in Bulgarian. (Dimitar Kosev, Mihail Voynov, Documents and Materials on the History of the Bulgarian People (1969) Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, p. 431.)
  4. ^ Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Macedonia, Dimitar Bechev, Scarecrow Press, 2009, ISBN 0810855658, p. 28.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Ivanovski was invoked but never defined (see the help page).