IVAN HADZHINIKOLOV

'Ivan Hadzhinikolov' (December 24 1869, Kilkis, today Greece - July 9 1934, Sofia) was a Bulgarian revolutionary and 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 received elementary and secondary education in in Kilikis, Plovdiv and Svishtov. Then Hadzhinikolov graduated higher education at commerce in Linz. After that he worked as Bulgarian teacher in Kostenets, Edessa, Kilkis and Thessaloniki.
Ivan Hadzhinikolov oppened bookstore in Thessaloniki in 1893 after leaving the school. In his house in 1893 was founded the IMRO. In 1901 he was arrested and sended to exile in Podrum Kale in Asia Minor. After amnesty in 1903 Hadzhinikolov went to Sofia and was engaged in booktrade and commerce. After heavy illnes with disordered nerves hе commitеd suicide in 1934.

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