Hristo Matov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hristo Matov

Bulgarian revolutionary

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1872

Place of Birth: Struga, Southwestern Statistical Region, North Macedonia

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1922

Profession: school teacher, philologist, opinion journalist

Nationality: Bulgaria

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Hristo Matov

  • Hristo Apostolov Matov (Bulgarian: ?????? ????????? ?????, also spelled Christo Matoff) (10 March 1872 – 10 February 1922) was a prominent Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, philologist, folklorist and publicist and one of the leaders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees, (later SMORO, IMORO, IMRO). Matov was born in 1872 in Struga, Ottoman Empire (today part of the Republic of North Macedonia).
  • Upon receiving his education in the Bulgarian school in Salonica, he chose a career as a teacher.
  • In 1895, while in Salonica, Matov was initiated into the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO) by Damyan Gruev.
  • His education warranted his subsequent appointment as a director of the Bulgarian pedagogical school of Skopje.
  • In less than a year as head of the school, he succeeded in organizing many revolutionary committees.
  • In 1898 he was elected as member of the Central Committee in Salonica.
  • In 1901, when the Salonica outrage occurred and the Ottoman authorities arrested many IMRO activists, he was imprisoned there and later exiled to Bodrum, Asia Minor.
  • In 1902, as a result of a general amnesty, he was released and allowed to return to Thessaloniki.
  • Soon after, he went to Sofia as a representative of the Central Committee of the IMRO.
  • The failure of the Ilinden Uprising in 1903 reignited the rivalries between the varying factions of the Macedonian revolutionary movement.
  • The left-wing faction opposed Bulgarian nationalism but the Centralist's faction of the IMARO, drifted more and more towards it.
  • At that time Matov became one of the leaders of the Centralist faction.
  • He escaped assassination in 1907, when Boris Sarafov and Ivan Garvanov were killed by the leftist Todor Panitsa.
  • Afterwards, he participated in the Balkan Wars and in the First World War as a Bulgarian officer.
  • Matov was acknowledged as a constitutionalist of the Macedonian movement.
  • He is the author of several books, a number of pamphlets, and several poems while in prison.
  • He died in Sofia on February 10, 1922.

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