Metody Patchev

Metody Patchev (Bulgarian: Методи Патчев; Macedonian: Методија Патчев) (May 7, 1875 – April 7, 1902) was a Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary, vojvoda of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization.[1][2][3] According to the Macedonian historiography, he was an ethnic Macedonian.[4]

Metody Patchev
BornMay 7, 1875
Ohrid, Ottoman Empire (today North Macedonia)
DiedApril 7, 1902
Kadino Selo, Ottoman Empire (today North Macedonia)

Life

Patchev was born in Ohrid, Ottoman Empire in 1875. As young man he moved to Plovdiv in Bulgaria to apply for work in a leather production company. When he arrived back to Ohrid, he became a Bulgarian Exarchate teacher in 1896.[5] Metody also known as Metodija applied himself in a secret society known then as Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees (BMARC)[6] On August 5, 1898, Dimitar Grdanov, a Serbian teacher in Ohrid, and pro-Serbian activist in Macedonia, was murdered by Metody Patchev, after which Patchev and his fellow conspirators Hristo Uzunov, Cyril Parlichev and Ivan Grupchev were arrested.[7] He stayed in Ottoman prison until 1901. After his release he applied as a teacher in the town of Prilep, but was unsuccessful due to his times in prison previously. Later in rejoining the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization he became involved in a cheta group under the command of Marko Lerinski.[8] On 7 April 1902 he entered the village of Kadino Selo with six other revolutionaries unaware of the situation in Kadino Selo he went into an ambush. The Ottoman troops within the village, were under attack from a small group of revolutionaries. After fierce fighting in the village and surrounds, Metodija killed his friends and committed suicide.[9][10]

After his death his unoccupied house was used as a secret hospital. Local female teachers including Kostadina Bojadjeva helped wounded fighters at the building. The Ottomans discovered the hospital but could find no charges against the teachers. They were held, interrogated, beaten and released. The hospital continued to operate and the local mayor arranged for free milk to assist them.[11]

References
  1. Region, Regional Identity and Regionalism in Southeastern Europe, Klaus Roth, Ulf Brunnbauer, LIT Verlag Münster, 2009, ISBN 3-8258-1387-8, pp. 132-136.
  2. "Македонизмът и съпротивата на Македония срещу него",Коста Църнушанов, Унив. изд. "Св. Климент Охридски", София, 1992
  3. The Macedoine, "The National Question in Yugoslavia. Origins, History, Politics", by Ivo Banac, Cornell University Press, 1984.
  4. The first name of the IMRO was "Bulgarian Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Committees", which was later changed several times. Initially its membership was restricted only for Bulgarians. It was active not only in Macedonia but also in Thrace (the Vilayet of Adrianople). Since its early name emphasized the Bulgarian nature of the organization by linking the inhabitants of Thrace and Macedonia to Bulgaria, these facts are still difficult to be explained from the Macedonian historiography. They suggest that IMRO revolutionaries in the Ottoman period did not differentiate between ‘Macedonians’ and ‘Bulgarians’. Moreover, as their own writings attest, they often saw themselves and their compatriots as ‘Bulgarians’ and wrote in Bulgarian standard language. For more see: Brunnbauer, Ulf (2004) Historiography, Myths and the Nation in the Republic of Macedonia. In: Brunnbauer, Ulf, (ed.) (Re)Writing History. Historiography in Southeast Europe after Socialism. Studies on South East Europe, vol. 4. LIT, Münster, pp. 165-200 ISBN 382587365X.
  5. Симеон Радев - Ранни спомени, Изд. къща Стрелец, София, 1994, стр 71.
  6. Encyclopedia of the age of imperialism, 1800-1914, Carl Cavanagh Hodge, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, ISBN 0-313-33404-8, p. 442.
  7. Makedonija (501-512 ed.). 1995. p. 30.
  8. Освободителните борби на Македония,I,стр.71,Хр. Силянов
  9. Писма и изповеди на един четник,XXVI,Хр.Силянов,1902 г.
  10. Николов, Борис. "Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893–1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник". София, 2001, стр. 125.
  11. Francisca de Haan; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (2006). Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 66–69. ISBN 978-963-7326-39-4.
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