Pyotr Draganov

Pyotr Danilovich Draganov (Russian: Пётр Данилович Драганов; Bulgarian: Петър Драганов; Macedonian: Петар Драганов; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1857 – February 7, 1928) was a Russian philologist and slavist.

Pyotr Draganov in the 1910s

Biography

Draganov was born in Komrat, Russian Empire, in 1857. He was of Bessarabian Bulgarian origin.^[1][2][3][4] Draganov studied history and philology at the University of Saint Petersburg. From 1885 to 1887 he was working as a teacher in a Thessaloniki high school after he was invited by the Bulgarian Exarchate.^[5]

He came to Thessaloniki with the claim that the Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia are Bulgarians.^{[citation needed]} However, after the huge research that he has done in Macedonia he came up with his own scientific opinion about them.^{[citation needed]} In other words, Draganov claimed that the Macedonian Slavs are a distinct Slavic ethnic group and the Macedonian dialects form a separate language.^[4][6] As a result of this claim and his personal beliefs, he was sent back to Russia.^{[7][non-primary source needed]} There he set the foundations of Macedonian studies.^[8]

References

1. Кузман Шапкарев - „За възраждането на българщината в Македония“, София, 1984, стр. 594
2. Blaže Ristovski (1987). Makedonskiot folklor i nacionalnata svest: istražuvanja i zapisi (Folklore macédonien et la conscience macédonienne) (in Macedonian). Studentski zbor. p. 73.
3. Петар Драганов - „1888: A New Work on the Ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs“
4. Andrew Rossos (2013). Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History (revised ed.). Hoover Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780817948832.
5. Roumen Dontchev Daskalov; Tchavdar Marinov (2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. BRILL. p. 430. ISBN 9789004250765.
6. Alexis Heraclides (2020). The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A History. Taylor & Francis Group. p. 152. ISBN 9780429266362.
7. "1888:A New Work on the Ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs, Petar Draganov". Archived from the original on 2012-04-07. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
8. Микитенко, О. (2020). Славістична діяльність П. Драганова та його «Македонско-Славянский сборник» (1894). Дриновський збірник, 12, 37-46. https://doi.org/10.7546/DS.2019.12.05

External links

• Petar Draganov for the ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs (English)
• The nasal vowels in the Macedonian and Bulgarian dialects
• Studying contemporary Macedonia in ethnographic, statistic and dialectal sense