Anton Dimitrov

Andon (Anton) Dimitrov (Bulgarian and ; 1867 – 13 March 1933) was a Macedonian Bulgarian revolutionary, teacher, and lawyer. He was among the founders of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO).

Biography Dimitrov was born in 1867 in the village of Ayvatovo (now a part of the municipality of Mygdonia, Greece), at the time in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki in 1889. He returned to Thessaloniki, teaching Turkish at the gymnasium he once attended himself. Afterwards, he studied law in Istanbul and Liege in Belgium until 1903. which was the predecessor of the Macedonian Federative Organization (MFO). However, Dimitrov did not participate in the MFO because of the growing tensions and hostility with the right-wing IMRO. Later, he taught Turkish at the Bulgarian Commerce school in Istanbul. Dimitrov, suffering from a serious illness, died by suicide on 13 March 1933, in Sofia.