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Despot S. Badžović (, ) (1850 — 30 November 1930) was a teacher and an activist of the Serbian national movement in
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. Badžović was also one of the early '' Macedonists'', who developed some kind of pro-Serbian Slav Macedonian identity.


Teacher in Kruševo

Despot Badžović and his brother Đorđe graduated at the Second Department of the Belgrade Orthodox Seminary founded by Miloš Milojević. In 1871 Badžović opened a Serbian school in
Kruševo Kruševo ( ; "Crușuva") is a town in North Macedonia. In Macedonian language, Macedonian the name means the 'place of pear trees'. It is the highest town in North Macedonia and one of the highest in the Balkans, situated at an altitude of over ...
for about 60 students where he and his brother Đorđe were the first teachers. Đorđe left the school in 1875 to become a teacher in Smilevo, and Despot left in 1876 to live in
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. Their brother Kuzman and his wife, Jelena Badžović, replaced them as teachers.


Move to Serbia

During the Serbian-Ottoman War Badžović distinguished himself by mobilizing volunteers who illegally crossed the Ottoman-Serbian border to join Serbian forces and as a company commander. After the war ended in February 1877, Despot became a scribe in the
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. On 20 May 1877 Badžović was in the delegation of “Serbs of
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" who asked the government of Serbia to liberate and unite Old Serbia with the
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. They also informed representatives of the
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and the
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of their demands. In the same year Badžović became a member of the Committee for the Liberation of Old Serbia and Macedonia. On 20 May 1879 Badžović suggested to the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs that Serbian forces should enter Macedonia to incite rebellion against the Ottomans.


Primers

At the end of 1879, with approval of Matija Ban, Badžović published the 'Alphabet Textook for Serbo-Macedonian Primary Schools' () written on "Serbo-Macedonian dialect". Matija Ban proposed to the government of the
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to establish the Main Board with eight members who would maintain the connection with smaller sub boards in smaller places in the
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and
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.
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Vladan Đorđević engaged Badžović to participate in composing of the alphabet book for the Serbian Schools in Macedonia. He adapted his earlier alphabet book and sent it to the Ministry of Education of Serbia under a new name 'Alphabet book for Macedonian Schools in Turkish Empire' ().


Notable works

* * * * Македонско Питање, Предлог за споразум« измсђу Срба, Грка и Бугара о Савезу балканских народа - В. Градиште, шт. Штампарија Ане М. Драшхоција, 1893


See also

* Association of Serbo-Macedonians


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Badzovic, Despot 1850 births 1930 deaths People from Kruševo Serbian nationalists Serbian activists Serbian educators Early Macedonists People from the Ottoman Empire 19th-century Serbian people 20th-century Serbian educators People from the Kingdom of Yugoslavia People of the Macedonian Struggle Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878)