. He was born on 1840 in
Berovo, Ottoman empire, (present-day
North Macedonia). He studied in
Odessa where he met the Bulgarian revolutionary
Georgi Sava Rakovski and fell under his influence. Later Berovski participated in his
Bulgarian legion in
Belgrade. Then he worked as a Bulgarian teacher in Macedonia. For his anti-
Greek Orthodox Church policy Berovski was jailed. For a brief period, he became an adherent of the
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church. Later he moved to
Constantinople and became one of the activists of the newly established
Bulgarian Exarchate. In 1875 Berovski was among the leaders of the Association "Bulgarian Dawn" in Thessaloniki. During tге period 1863 - 1876, Dimitar Popgeorgiev maintained correspondence with
Stefan Verkovic. In 1876 Berovski was one of the leaders of
Razlovci uprising. In an encounter with the Ottomans, he was wounded, but managed to escape to the Maleševo Mountains, after the uprising was suppressed. He also participated in the
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) and later was one of the leaders of the
Kresna-Razlog Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, he moved in
Principality of Bulgaria and worked as a Bulgarian police officer and district governor. in
Kyustendil,
Tsaribrod and
Radomir. Berovski took part in the
Unification of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia and in the
Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885. In 1884, he retired to the village of
Dolna Grashtitsa, Kyustendil region, where he purchased a farm and engaged in agriculture. Later during the 1890s he was member and for a period president of the Kyustendil Macedonian Society which supported the
Supreme Macedonian-Adrianople Committee (SMAC). Later, his house became a border post of the
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization for the transfer of revolutionaries to the Ottoman Empire. For a short time in 1902, Popgeorgiev served as mayor of Kyustendil. He died in Kyustendil in 1907. His son Stanimir Berovski was a public figure and regional governor of Kyustendil district from the
Progressive Liberal Party (Bulgaria). Some of his personal belongings are kept in the monastery "St Archangel Michael" which serves as the city museum of
Berovo. ==See also==