Pyotr Draganov

Pyotr Danilovich Draganov (Russian: Пётр Данилович Драганов; Bulgarian: Петър Драганов; Macedonian: Петар Драганов; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1857 – February 7, 1928) was a Russian philologist and slavist.

Pyotr Draganov in the 1910s

Biography

Draganov was born in Komrat, Russian Empire in 1857. He was a Bessarabian Bulgarian.[1][2][3][4] Draganov studied history and philology at the University of Saint Petersburg. From 1885 to 1887 he was working as a teacher in a Thessaloniki high school after he was invited by the Bulgarian Exarchate.[5]

He came to Thessaloniki with the claim that the Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia are Bulgarians. However, after the huge research that he has done in Macedonia he came up with his own scientific opinion about them. In other words, Draganov claimed that the Macedonians are a distinct Slavic ethnic group and the Macedonian dialects form a separate language.[4][6] As a result of this claim and his personal beliefs, he was sent back to Russia, where he set the foundations of Macedonian studies.[7]

References
  1. Кузман Шапкарев - „За възраждането на българщината в Македония“, София, 1984, стр. 594
  2. акад. Блаже Ристовски - „Македонистот Петар Драганов“
  3. Петар Драганов - „1888: A New Work on the Ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs“
  4. Andrew Rossos (2013). Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History (revised ed.). Hoover Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780817948832.
  5. Roumen Dontchev Daskalov; Tchavdar Marinov (2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. BRILL. p. 430. ISBN 9789004250765.
  6. Alexis Heraclides (2020). The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 152. ISBN 9780429266362.
  7. "1888:A New Work on the Ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs, Petar Draganov". Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
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