Димитър Янакиев Бисеров – Околията: радетел за просвета и книжнина
Dimitar Yanakiev Biserov – Okoliyata: educator for enlightenment and literature

Summary/Abstract: The current research is dedicated to Dimitar Yanakiev Biserov – Okoliyata. He is one of the most active Dupnitsa’s revolutionary and clerical apostle of Northern Macedonia until the Liberation. A fighter for spiritual freedom, a teacher, a poet, a translator, a clergyman, a correspondent a founder of Dupnitsa Lyceum Zora – these are the actions of this great but slightly known Dupnitsa’s man of letters. He is born around 1830 in Dupnitsa town and died from tuberculosis in 1886. He attended the town cell’s schools and Rila monastery school. However, he educated himself throughout his entire life and became one of the most erudite people for his time. Gradually he changed the Church Slavonic books and intro¬duced grammar, geography, history. He is also an author of hand written textbooks. He even took part in Teachers’ Diocesan Congregation held in the town of Samokov in 1847. Dimitar Biserov is a disciple of Hristaki Pavlovich in the fight against the use of Turkish words in the spoken Bulgarian language and writing. He is the author of first Turkish-Bulgarian dictionary before the Liberation. Eager to learn and very active he corresponded with Stefan Verkovich, P. R. Slaveykov and other Bulgarian men of learning. His works were published in several newspapers and magazines issues and they show his versatile interests. He worked in cooperation with the periodical magazine of Bulgarian book Organization in Braila and promulgated folk songs, sayings, riddles, proverbs gathered from Dupnitsa region. He participated in the struggle for church independence by writing his enthusiastic poem “Reshenieto na Bulgarskia tsarkoven vapros”, published in the Constantinople’s magazine “Chitalishte” on 1st June, 1871. Tihomir Medzhidiev published for the first time the original manuscript of the poem in his book “Dupnitsa –Christianity, Islam, Judaism”. The history of Dupnitsa lyceum Zora is related to Dimitar Biserov. The lyceum founded in 1858 claims to be the fourth lyceum in Bulgarian lands. Born in humble circumstances, Dimitar Biserov gives his significant contribution for social and cultural uplift. In his personality and achieve¬ments we may recognize the typical features of Bulgarian Renaissance intelligence and its moral image.

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