Batandzhiev was born in Gyumendzhe, Ottoman Empire (present-day
Goumenissa,
Greece). He studied in Gyumendzhe and
Thessaloniki. Batandzhiev was a teacher in the
Bulgarian Exarchate school in Thessaloniki and secretary of the Bulgarian Bishopric in the city. On 23 October 1893, he was one of the founders of the
Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO). Batandzhiev became a member of the Central Committee of IMRO without portfolio. After the
Young Turk Revolution from 1908, he was an active member of the
Bulgarian Constitutional Clubs Party. After the outbreak of the
Second Balkan War, Greek soldiers arrested him in Thessaloniki. His son, Ivan Batandzhiev, was a Bulgarian sports figure, one of the founders of the
Bulgarian Football Championship, chairman of the
Bulgarian Football Union and trainer of the
Bulgaria national football team. His grandson with the same name was a Bulgarian geologist. == References ==