Stefan Dedov
Journalist (1869-1914)
Stefan Jakimov Dedov (Macedonian: Стефан Јакимов Дедов; Bulgarian: Стефан Якимов Дедов, romanized: Stefan Yakimov Dedov; 28 October 1869 – 19 September 1914) was a journalist, writer and early proponent of the Macedonian Slavs' ethnonational distinctiveness. He publicly expressed the idea of a Macedonian nation distinct from the Bulgarians, as well as a separate Macedonian language. He also self-identified occasionally as a Bulgarian.
Biography
Dedov was born in 1869 in Ohrid in the Ottoman Empire (now North Macedonia). He worked as a teacher there prior to working as a postal worker in Berkovitsa and Ruse, Bulgaria. In 1898, he moved to Belgrade, where he began studying at the Faculty of Law (1898–1902). Тhere he, along with Dijamandija Mišajkov, founded the "Macedonian club", and published the newspaper Balkanski glasnik (Balkan Herald) in French and Serbian. The newspaper expressed the idea for an independent Macedonian state, nation and language. Later the Serbian government banned the club and suppressed the newspaper.
In 1902, he went to Saint Petersburg together with Mišajkov and became one of the founders of Macedonian Scientific and Literary Society in October.
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