Tomalevski was born on April 14, 1882, in
Kruševo, then in the
Ottoman Empire, now in
North Macedonia. His brother was the Bulgarian essayist Georgi Tomalevski. In 1901, Tomalevski was a student at the
Bulgarian Men's High School of Bitola and joined the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization there. Persecuted by the Ottoman authorities, he fled to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he completed his education. In 1902 he became a teacher at the
Bulgarian Pedagogical School at Skopje. In 1903 he took part in the
Ilinden Uprising. In the home of his parents (today the Museum of the Ilinden Uprising) the
Kruševo Republic was proclaimed in 1903. He became a
Bulgarian Exarchate teacher in Kruševo in 1904, where he was a member of the district committee of the IMRO and worked for the reconstruction of the revolutionary organization. Persecuted by the Ottoman authorities, Tomalevski again fled back to Bulgaria, where he taught at the
Oryahovo and
Byala Slatina. Later Tomalevski graduated in philosophy in Geneva and Friborg. In the
First World War, he graduated from the
Reserve Officers' School (Bulgaria) in Sofia and was appointed later mayor of Kruševo, when the area of Vardar Macedonia, called then Southern Serbia, was
occupied by Bulgaria. On February 3, 1920, together with
Todor Alexandrov,
Alexander Protogerov, and others, he participated in the session at which a decision was made to renew the military activity in Vardar and
Greek Macedonia. He was sent by VMRO on a special mission to Western Europe. Naum Tomalevski is among the founding members of the
Macedonian Scientific Institute. From the founding of IMRO until 1928 he was a member of the Overseas Representation together with
Kiril Parlichev and
Georgi Bazhdarov. Tomalevski wrote in the newspaper "Narodnost" (1918–1919), "Vardar", "Macedonia", "Weekly Dawn", etc. He was part of the editorial board of the magazine "Macedonia". In January 1924, Aleksandar Protogerov and Naum Tomalevski met in London with
Stjepan Radić for joint activities of IMRO and the Croatian opposition. They toured Europe in May 1925, in Austria successfully agreeing joint actions against Yugoslavia with the Austrian Minister of Defense, the Hungarian Prime Minister and representatives of the Italian government. After the assassination of Aleksandar Protogerov in 1928, Tomalevski sided with his followers called
Protogerovists.
Ivan Mihaylov, the leader of the other faction of the IMRO, ordered the murder of Tomalevski. On December 2, 1930, Tomalevski and his bodyguard were killed by
Vlado Chernozemski and Andrey Manov in Sofia. His son, , was a prominent architect in the Bulgarian
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