130th anniversary of Dimitrija Čupovski, Macedonian textbook writer and lexicographer

16.03.09
Dimitrija Čupovski (18781940) was born in the village of Papradište in the outskirts of Veles in the Ottoman Empire, (now Republic of Macedonia). Before Čupovski was born, his father had been killed by Albanian mercenaries. When he was 10 years old his village was burned, and he and his family then settled in Kruševo, the birth place of his mother. After learning the painting trade, he and his brothers left for Sofia in search of work. In the capital of the newly established Kingdom of Bulgaria Čupovski worked during the day and visited the school organized by Dame Gruev, Petar Pop Arsov and other students. After that he continued his education in Belgrade and Saint Petersburg

He was one of the founders of the Macedonian Literary Society, established in Saint Petersburg in 1902, and served as its president from 1902 to 1917. He was also the author of a large number of articles and official documents, publisher of the printed bulletin of the Macedonian Colony, and organiser of several Macedonian associations. He wrote verse both in Russian and Macedonian. He also produced the first Macedonian-Russian dictionary, worked on a Macedonian grammar and an encyclopaedic monograph on Macedonia and the Macedonians. He also drew up an ethnic and geographical map of Macedonia.

In the period 1913-1918, Čupovski published the newspaper "Македонскi Голосъ" (Macedonian Voice) in which he and fellow members of the Petersburg Macedonian Colony promoted the existence of a separate Macedonian people which is different from the Greeks, Bulgarians and Serbs, and were struggling to popularize the idea for an independent Macedonian state.

Dimitrija Čupovski is one of the most prominent ethnic Macedonians in history and one of the most important actors of the ethnic Macedonian awakening.

МАКЕДОНСКIЙ ГОЛОСЪ - Број 1 (9 Јуни 1913 година):
http://macedonian.atspace.com/knigi/mak_golos.htm
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