Dimitar Ganchev
Dimitar Ganchev | |
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Димитър Ганчев | |
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| Born | 21 March 1875 |
| Died | 17 October 1912 (aged 37) |
| Organization | IMARO |
Dimitar Ganchev (Bulgarian: Димитър Ганчев; 1875–1912) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and teacher. An anarchist member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO), he was one of the organisers of the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising and arrested for his part in it. He was later killed while fighting in the battle of Bunarhisar.
Biography
Dimitar Ganchev was born on 21 March 1875, in the Bulgarian city of Ruse, which was then under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.[1] After graduating from school in Ruse, he went abroad to study the natural sciences at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland.[2] In 1897, he became a member of the so-called Geneva group – an anarchistic revolutionary circle led by Mihail Gerdzhikov and Petar Mandzhukov.[3] He moved to Skopje, where he worked as a teacher and joined the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization (IMARO).[4]
In early 1903, he was elected as a delegate to the Solun congress, which decided to carry out an armed uprising against the Ottomans. According to Lazar Dimitrov, Ganchev was in favour of the uprising.[5] Ganchev then disguised himself and went into hiding in the village of Dolno Sonje, where he organised a rebellion against the Ottoman Gendarmerie.[4] Ganchev was arrested and imprisoned in Skopie on either 28 April[5] or 7 June 1903.[4] He was sentenced to life imprisonment, under article 58 of the Bulgarian criminal code.[4] In 1904 he was released from prison, under an amnesty procured by the Bulgarian government, and later became a teacher in Razgrad.[4]
With the outbreak of the First Balkan War, Ganchev enlisted in the Bulgarian Army as a volunteer.[6] On 17 October 1912, he was killed in the battle of Bunarhisar.[1][6]
References
- ^ a b Nikolov, Boris (2001). Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация: Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934): Биографично-библиографски справочник [Internal Macedonian-Adrianopic Revolutionary Organization: Voivodes and Leaders (1893-1934): Biographical and Bibliographical Reference Book] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Издателство „Звезди“. p. 29. ISBN 954-9514-28-5.
- ^ Miletich, Lyubomir, ed. (1927). "Спомени на Никола Пушкаров" [Memoirs of Nikola Pushakrov]. Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховиститѣ [The movement from this side of the Vardar and the struggle against the supremacists] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Pechatnitsa P. Glushkovŭ. p. 180. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via promacedonia.org.
- ^ Gerdzhikov, Mihail (1984). Михаил Герджиков: Спомени, документи, материали [Mihail Gerdzhikov: Memories, documents, materials] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Наука и изкуство. p. 6.
- ^ a b c d e Georgiev, Dragi (2003). АМНЕСТИРАНИТЕ ИЛИНДЕНЦИ ВО 1904 ГОДИНА Превод и коментар М-р Драги Ѓоргиев [The Amnestied Ilindens in 1904] (PDF) (in Bulgarian). Skopje: Библиотека и Издателство "Струмски". p. 197.
- ^ a b Miletich, Lyubomir, ed. (1927). "Спомени на Никола Пушкаров" [Memoirs of Nikola Pushakrov]. Движението отсамъ Вардара и борбата съ върховиститѣ [The movement from this side of the Vardar and the struggle against the supremacists] (in Bulgarian). Sofia: Pechatnitsa P. Glushkovŭ. p. 185. Retrieved 19 August 2025 – via promacedonia.org.
- ^ a b Peltekov, Aleksandar (2014). Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско [Revolutionary figures from Macedonia and the Adrianople region] (in Bulgarian) (Второ допълнено издание ed.). Sofia: Орбел. pp. 84–85. ISBN 9789544961022.