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David Dimitrijević also known as David Dimitrijević-Ljuborad (Gnjilane, Ottoman Empire, 1874 - Skopje, Macedonia, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 23 April 1929) was an educator, national revolutionary in the Macedonian Struggle and deputy.

Biography

Educational work

He was born in Gnjilan, where he finished elementary school there. As a Prizren High School graduate he enrolled in a teacher's training academy at the Prizren Seminary. Upon graduation, he was called to Skopje in 1891 by the then Serbian consul of Skopje, Vladimir Karić, because there was an urgent need for a teacher in the newly opened school in the village of Klinovac in Preševska kaza, on the very border of Serbia and the Ottoman Empire. As a capable and brave teacher, Dimitrijević was sent by the Skopje Consulate and the Skopje Metropolitanate to the most sensitive places, where there was a danger for Serbian teachers from assassination by the VMRO committee. Until 1904, he worked as a teacher in Serbian schools in Bašino Selo near Veles, Zletovo and Kriva Palanka.

Participation in the Serbian Chetnik action

By the time the Serbian Chetnik campaign began in 1904, David Dimitrijević was already the manager of the Serbian Veles schools. He significantly influenced Jovan Babunski, then a teacher in Veles, to defect to the company. Due to Babunski's defiance, Dimitrijević was arrested, but he was released after the intervention of Serbian diplomacy. During the Serbian Chetnik campaign, he was one of the most important organizational workers. From 1906, he was publicly the manager of the Serbian schools in Kumanovo, and secretly the president of the Kumanovo committee of the Serbian Chetnik organization, under the code name Ljuborad. Because of his work with the companies, he was arrested in the same year and sentenced to eternal imprisonment, but he was soon pardoned to occupy the Russian diplomacy. In 1908, he became the president of the Central Board of the Serbian Chetnik organization in Skopje.

Cultural-political work

He participated in the work of the First Serbian Conference of Ottoman Serbs, in August 1908 in Skopje, after the Young Turk Revolution. Even before the conference, he was elected as a member of the Provisional Central Committee of the Ottoman Serbs, that is, the Serbian political organization in the Ottoman Empire. After the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire, he founded the Vardar newspaper in 1908, the organ of the Serbian national organization in the Ottoman Empire. Davidović led the paper until it was banned by the Turkish authorities in 1910, when he started the paper Zakonitost. In the same year as Vardar, he founded the first Serbian printing house and bookstore in Skopje.

Wars and liberation

He participated in the First World War with the Secretary of National Defense Milan Vasić. After the liberation, he lived in Skopje as a retired teacher. He was elected as a Skopje MP in 1925.

David Dimitrijević died in 1929 in Skopje.

Literature

Biljana Vučetić, Bogdan Radenković: "The fate of a Serbian nationalist", Belgrade, 2018, pages 123-126.

References