Short Biography
One of the most outstanding names in the recent history of
Macedonian culture is undoubtedly that of Krste Petkov
Misirkov, whose work was a valuable contribution to European
culture and also to European science.
But, owing to the perverse fortunes of the Macedonian people's
history the most important work of the new history of
Macedonian culture, Misirkov's Za makedonskite raboti ("About
Macedonian Matters"), published in 1903, was not recognized at
its proper worth until 20 years after his death. During his lifetime,
this work was regarded as the greatest threat to the realization of
the plans of those who aimed at keeping Macedonia under
subjugation. For this very reason, he was forced to spend his life
in exile, as he relates in his "Memories and Impressions," "a
wanderer in other lands, from which I tried to be of use to my
oppressed country." He died in poverty in Sofia on 26th July
1926.