Anton Dimitrov

Anton Dimitrov

Anton Dimitrov Filachtschew ( Bulgarian Антон Димитров Филахтечев , or Андон; also written Andon , or Andon Dimitrov Filahtechev ; * January 1867 in Ajwatowo , today Lete in Greece ; † March 13, 1933 in Sofia , Bulgaria , founder and Bulgarian revolutionary) Member of BMARK ( Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee , later renamed Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization ).

Anton Dimitrov was born in the Ottoman city ​​of Ajwatowo, today Lete, near Thessaloniki in northern Greece. In 1889 he finished the Bulgarian men's high school in Thessaloniki and began studying law in Constantinople . He interrupted his studies because of illness and returned to Thessaloniki, where he taught the Turkish language at the Bulgarian men's high school between 1892 and 1897. From 1894 Dimitrov also taught Bulgarian at the Turkish grammar school in the city.

On October 23, 1893 he was next to Christo Tatartschew , Dame Gruew , Christo Batandschiew , Petar Poparsow and Ivan Chadschinikolow , founder of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Committee in Thessaloniki, which stood at the beginning of the Bulgarian Macedonia-Adrianople Revolutionary Committee (BMARK for short). Dimitrov has been a member of the Central Committee since the organization was founded.

After 1897 Dimitrov worked as a teacher in the Bulgarian school in Bitola . From 1899 he studied law again, but in Liège . Dimitrov successfully completed his studies in 1901. From November of the same year he was a practicing lawyer in Bitola and at the same time a member of the management of the BMARK. In November 1903 he was elected director of the Bulgarian schools in Prilep and in 1904 he was elected judge at the local court in Bitola.

After the Young Turkish Revolution of 1908, Dimitrov was a founding member of the Union of Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs party in Macedonia , at whose founding conference he was elected first chairman. When Macedonia became part of Serbia after the Second Balkan War in 1913, Poparsov (see Macedonian Bulgarians ) fled to Bulgaria, where he worked in some ministries. From 1920 he was chairman of the Macedonian Brotherhoods in Bulgaria (bulg. Македонските братства в България).

Anton Dimitrov died on March 13, 1933 in Sofia.

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