Teacher, participant in national liberation struggles, public figure.

His father Dimitar is a long-time mayor of Bansko. He taught for a while at local school. On the eve of the April Uprising, he joined the revolutionary movement. He became a close assistant in the construction of a revolutionary committee in 1876 and was one of the main organizers and participants (Leader of rebellious detachment) in the Kresna-Razlog Uprising in 1878. At the end of the nineteenth century he settled in Sofia. Together with his brothers Ivan and Lazar founded the first specialized furniture factory after the Liberation. In 1920, they donated 60,000 golden leva for the construction of a hotel in Bansko, from which incomes, the municipality would financially support education development and forestry through afforestation of the bare hills in town vicinity.