Ivan Hadzhinikolov

Ivan Hadzhinikolov (December 24 1869, Kukush, Aegean Macedonia - July 9 1934, Sofia, Bulgaria) was a Bulgarian revolutionary, leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace. He was among the founders of the Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees in October 1893 (the organization was renamed to IMARO in 1906 and IMRO in 1920). He is considered ethnic Macedonian in the Republic of Macedonia.

He received elementary and secondary education in in Kukush (Kilikis), Plovdiv and Svishtov. Then Hadzhinikolov graduated higher education at commerce in Linz. After that he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in Kostenets, Voden, Kukush and Solun (Thessaloniki). [Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна Македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, С. 2001, с. 177]

Ivan Hadzhinikolov opened a bookstore in Thessaloniki in 1893 after leaving the school. The IMARO was founded in his house in 1893. In 1901 he was arrested and sent into exile in Podrum Kale in Asia Minor. After amnesty in 1903 Hadzhinikolov went to Sofia and was engaged in booktrade and commerce. After a heavy illness with disordered nerves hе commitеd suicide in 1934.

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* [http://promacedonia.org/en/ban/ls1.html#38 Ivan Hadjinikolov on the Serbian propaganda in Macedonia which led to the creation of the Revolutionary Organization, Magazine Ilustratsia Ilinden, 1936, book I, pp. 4-5]

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