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Dimitar Miladinov was born in
Struga,
in 1810. Finishing education, he had worked as a teacher in several cities in
Macedonia.
"Dimitar Miladinov" He was assured that
the Macedonian nation could liberate itself from the political and spiritual
slavery only through the education and literacy. He insisted on elimination of
the Greek language in the schools, introduced the Macedonian language because of
what, he came in conflict with the Greek bishop in Ohrid. Central
part in the Dimitar Miladinov's renaissance activity was the collection of the
Macedonian folk art. As a result of his engagement, the Macedonian literature
acquired the most representative work, "Zbornik na Narodni Umotvorenija -
The Collection of Folk Songs, Riddles and Costumes", published in Zagreb in
1861. The Collection consists of 662 folk songs. mostly
about love. There are also many songs about the heroes and the haiduks: Marko
Krale, Momchilo Vojvoda, Bolen Dojchin, Dete Dukadinche. Undoubtedly, one of the
most important part of "The Collection" is the Macedonian-Croation
dictionary that has cultural and historical value. The
creation of "The Collection" represents a large event in the cultural
history of the Macedonian nation. Its contribution consists of the fact that the
Macedonian nation became aware of the folk art as a national treasure and that
the Maceodnian language could be a noble resource for written expression and
development of the Macedonian literature and culture. "The
Collection" showed to the world that the Macedonian language lived in the
bosom of the Macedonian folk art as a mark of national originality. A lot of
other poets learned from him how to create their own art. He died in Istanbul in
1862, in prison. |
