Born in
Ohrid, he studied in an elementary school there. After the liberation of Bulgaria in 1878, he emigrated to
Sofia. In 1883, he graduated from the Military School in Sofia and in 1895 graduated from the Military Academy in
Turin,
Italy. During the successful
Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885, he was an aide-de-camp in the Western Corps quarters. He distinguished himself in the
Battle of Lule Burgas during the
First Balkan War as a commander of the Fourth Preslav Infantry Division. Between 22 August 1913 and 1 September 1913, Kliment Boyadzhiev was the Minister of War. During
World War I, he commanded the
1st Army which achieved major successes against the
Royal Serbian Army in the offiensives of
Morava and
Kosovo. Boyadzhiev remained in that position until 25 September 1916, when he was replaced by
Dimitar Geshov and went to the reserve. The general was awarded four Bulgarian medals for courage and bravery, as well as one
Russian. After the war, between 1918 and 1923 he emigrated to Germany. He was also an author of a relief map of Bulgaria in 1902. Boyadzhiev died in Sofia in 1933. ==Honours==