Antinogen (Atinogen, Geni, Antigon) Dimitrov Hadzhov (1874 – July 21, 1912) was a Bulgarian teacher(...)The almost exclusive "national" basis of the Internal organization was namely the Exarchist population. The same holds true for the clear domination of the Exarchist social elite within its leadership and of the practical support given to it by the local institutions of the Exarchate. Bulgarian teachers in Macedonia constituted the backbone of the Internal organization while, according to their social profile, its leaders were quite often themselves former Bulgarian Exarchist teachers. (...)" For more see: Tchavdar Marinov We, the Macedonians. The Paths of Macedonian Supra-Nationalism (1878–1912) p. 107-137 in We, the People: Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe with Mishkova Diana as ed., Central European University Press, 2009, . and revolutionaryThe revolutionary committee dedicated itself to fight for "full political autonomy for Macedonia and Adrianople." Since they sought autonomy only for those areas inhabited by Bulgarians, they denied other nationalities membership in IMRO. According to Article 3 of the statutes, "any Bulgarian could become a member". For more see: Laura Beth Sherman, Fires on the mountain: the Macedonian revolutionary movement and the kidnapping of Ellen Stone, Volume 62, East European Monographs, 1980, , p. 10. from the region of Macedonia.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация: Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934): Биографично-библиографски справочник. София, Издателство „Звезди“, 2001. . с. 177. Hadzhov was a participant in the Macedonian Struggle, member of the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization, participant in the Ilinden Uprising and one of the members of the Forest Headquarters of the Krusevo Rebel District.Историја на Крушево и Крушевско, Од постанокот на градот до поделбата на Македонија, книга прва, Крушево, 1978
Biography Hadzhov was born in 1874 in the town of Struga, as an only child in a family of a teachers in the Bulgarian Exarchate school system. In 1892, he graduated from the Pedagogical Department for Teacher Training of the Bulgarian Men's High School of Thessaloniki and became a teacher in Struga.Георги Тренчев, "Педагогическото отделение на Солунската гимназия (1887 – 1896 г.)" в сп. "Исторически преглед", БАН, година LX, книжка 1-2, София, 2004 година, стр. 59. He joined the Internal Macedonian Adrianople Revolutionary Organization as a student, invited by Aleksandar Chakarov. In 1895, he was among the founders of the organization's first structure in Struga,Известия на Инситтута за история, том 6, Издателство на Българксата академия на науките, София, 1956, с. 500 at which time only Bulgarians were allowed to be members.Denis Š. Ljuljanović (2023) Imagining Macedonia in the Age of Empire. State Policies, Networks and Violence (1878–1912), LIT Verlag Münster; , p. 211. In the beginning of 1903, he became the headmaster of the Bulgarian junior high school in KrushevoМакедония в образи – фототипно издание, Анико, София, 2010, стр. 128. and took part in the preparations for the Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising. During the Uprising, he was a member of the Forest Staff of the Krushevo Rebel District and participated in the defense of the Krushevo Republic. After the defeat of the uprising by the Ottomans, he became a Bulgarian teacher in Ohrid, where he was a member of the neighborhood revolutionary committee.Николов, Борис Й. Вътрешна македоно-одринска революционна организация. Войводи и ръководители (1893-1934). Биографично-библиографски справочник, София, 2001, стр. 177 According to Milan Matov in this period the greatest real benefit for the structure of the IMARO was from Hadzhov, because all the intelligentsia had emigrated to Bulgaria and only he remained together with Hristo Uzunov in the area. With that, he decisively helped to restore the revolutionary groups along the entire coast of the Lake Ohrid.Матов, Милан. Най-комитата разказва, Културно-благотворителна фондация "Братя Миладинови", София, 2002, стр. 37
He died on July 21, 1912, in Struga.Пелтеков, Александър Г. Революционни дейци от Македония и Одринско. Второ допълнено издание. София, Орбел, 2014. . с. 496.
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