Mihail Petrusevski

About

Twentieth-century Macedonian linguistics expert, academic, philosopher, and author. He wrote hundreds of philosophical essays and is most famous for translating Homer's Iliad into the Serbian Cyrillic language.

Before Fame

He served on a committee that worked to standardize the Macedonian alphabet.

Trivia

He founded Skopje University's Philosophy Department.

Family Life

His family lived in the southwestern Macedonian city of Bitola at the time of his birth.

Associated With

He wrote an adaptation of Skanderbeg, a work by Bulgarian author Grigor Parlichev.