Hristo Batandzhiev

Hristo Batandzhiev
Born	1869 Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire
Died	18 July 1913 Aegean Sea

Hristo Batandzhiev (Bulgarian: Христо Батанджиев, Macedonian: Христо Батанџиев) (Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire, present day Goumenissa, Greece – 1913, Aegean Sea) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary,^[1] one of the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization.

He was a teacher in the Bulgarian Exarchate school in Thessaloniki and Secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city between 1888 and 1911. Batandzhiev also participated in the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising. After the Young Turk Revolution from 1908, he was an active member of the Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Party.

In July 1913, after the outbreak of the Second Balkan War, Hristo Batandzhiev was arrested by the Greek authorities. He was about to be deported to the island of Trikeri in the Aegean Sea, together with many other Bulgarians. During the trip however, he was killed by the Greeks.

His son is Ivan Batandzhiev was a Bulgarian sports figure, one of the founders of the Bulgarian Football Championship, chairman of the Bulgarian Football Union and trainer of the Bulgaria national football team.^[2]

References

1. Freedom Or Death: The Life of Gotsé Delchev, Mercia MacDermott, Pluto Press, 1978, ISBN 0904526321, p. 99.
2. Кунов, Ангел. Ст.н.с. д-р Иван Батанджиев на 80 години. Списание на Българското геологическо дружество 77 (2-3). София, Българска академия на науките, 2016. с. 111.

Sources

• Encyclopedia "Bulgaria", vol. 1, Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1978 (in Bulgarian): Енциклопедия България, том 1, Издателство на БАН, София, 1978).