Dimitar Blagoev

Dimitar Blagoev
Димитър Благоев
Born(1856-06-14)14 June 1856
Died7 May 1924(1924-05-07) (aged 67)
Alma materSPbU
OccupationPolitician
Political partyBulgarian Workers' Social Democratic Party
Narrows
Bulgarian Communist Party
Spouse
(m. 1883; died 1921)

Dimitar Blagoev Nikolov (Bulgarian: Димитър Благоев Николов; Macedonian: Димитар Благоев Николов; 14 June 1856 – 7 May 1924) was a Bulgarian political leader and philosopher. Blagoev was the founder of socialism in Bulgaria and the first social-democratic party in the Balkans, the Marxist Bulgarian Social Democratic Party. He led the Narrow Socialists after a split in 1903. Blagoev was also an important figure in the early history of Russian Marxism, and later founded and led the Bulgarian Communist Party. He was a proponent for the establishment of a Balkan Federation.