Pyotr Danilovich Draganov (; ; ; – February 7, 1928) was a Russian
philologist
Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...
and
slavist.
Biography
Draganov was born in
Komrat,
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
, in 1857. He was of
Bessarabian Bulgarian origin.
Draganov studied history and philology at the University of Saint Petersburg. From 1885 to 1887 he was working as a teacher in a
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki (; ), also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, Salonika, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece (with slightly over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area) and the capital cit ...
high school after he was invited by the
Bulgarian Exarchate.
He came to Thessaloniki with the claim that the
Slavic speakers in Ottoman Macedonia are Bulgarians. However, after the huge research that he has done in
Macedonia he came up with his own scientific opinion about them. In other words, Draganov claimed that the
Macedonian Slavs are a distinct Slavic ethnic group and the
Macedonian dialects form a separate language.
As a result of this claim and his personal beliefs, he was sent back to Russia. There he set the foundations of
Macedonian studies.
[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]
References
External links
Petar Draganov for the ethnography of the Macedonian Slavs(English)
The nasal vowels in the Macedonian and Bulgarian dialectsStudying contemporary Macedonia in ethnographic, statistic and dialectal sense
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Linguists from the Russian Empire
Bessarabian Bulgarians
People from Comrat
Macedonists
1857 births
1928 deaths