Macedonistics - Macedonists, Krste Misirkov, Dalibor Brozovi?, Christina Kramer, Horace Lunt (Paperback)

Chapters: Macedonists, Krste Misirkov, Dalibor Brozovi?, Christina Kramer, Horace Lunt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Krste Petkov Misirkov (Bulgarian: Macedonian: ) (born 18 November 1874 in Postol (Pella), Ottoman Empire (today Greece); died 26 July 1926 in Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria) was a philologist, reformer of the standard Macedonian language, slavist, historian, ethnographer, publicist, author of the first book and magazine on standard Macedonian language and he was elected as the greatest Macedonian of the 20-th century. His writings are central to the issue of the existence of a Macedonian nation distinct from the Bulgarian nation. At different points in his life, Misirkov expressed conflicting statements about the ethnicity of the Slavs living in Macedonia, including his own ethnicity, calling them pure Bulgarians, Macedonians or Macedonian Bulgarians respectively. As a result, both his ethnic attachment and legacy remains a matter of dispute among historians from Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. In his life, Misirkov wrote one book, one diary, published one issue of a magazine and wrote more than thirty articles. His most important work is the book "On Macedonian Matters," published in Sofia in 1903. The magazine was called "Vardar" and was published in 1905 in Odessa, Russian Empire. The articles that Misirkov wrote have been published in different newspapers and they were focused on different topics. Front cover of Za Makedonckite Raboti Misirkov's most important writing is undoubtedly the book Za Makedonckite Raboti (On Macedonian Matters) published in 1903 in which he laid down the principles of the modern Macedonian language. According to this book, the Macedonian language should be based on dialects from the central...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=900332