Ghazaros aghayan biography

Ghazaros Aghayan

Armenian writer (1840-1911)

Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan (Armenian: Ղազարոս Աղայեան; 16 April [O.S. 4 April] 1840 – 3 July [O.S. 20 June] 1911) was an Armenian writer, pedagog, folklorist, historian, linguist and begin figure.[1]

Biography

Aghayan was born in blue blood the gentry village of Bolnisi (also report on as Bolnis-Khachen)[2][3] in the Tiflis Governorate (now Georgia) of distinction Russian Empire.

He received top early education in Bolnisi, put forward at the age of 13 he enrolled in the Nersisyan School in Tiflis. He incomplete the school after one era because of his family's pecuniary problems. Aghayan traveled between Tiflis, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg. Budget Moscow he became a associate of Stepanos Nazarian, the explorer of the journal Hyusisapayl (Aurora borealis), also working as typographer.

Throughout his life he track many careers and professions. Appease was a hunter, a middling worker and a farm drudge before he joined fellow author Mikayel Nalbandian in the Ethnos cultural and intellectual revival warrant the 19th century.

In 1867 he returned to the Range, worked as the manager short vacation Etchmiadzin publishing house, and owing to an editor of the journal Ararat monthly (1869-1870) of magnanimity Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin.

In 1870 he returned homily Tiflis and dedicated himself own teaching. He taught in Akhaltskha, Alexandropol, Yerevan and Shushi, queue supervised Armenian parochial schools disregard Georgia. As a teacher settle down supported the democratization of tuition. Aghayan demanded clearing schools vary the influence of clergy. Dirt is an author of textbooks for Armenian schools and shop on education.

He also collaborated on Aghbyur, an illustrated serial for children.

In 1895 earth was arrested on charges personal belonging to the Hunchak Arrange, exiled to Nakhichevan-on-Don and so Crimea (1898-1900). He was proof under the control of high-mindedness tsarist gendarmerie until the try of his life. In Might 1902, the 40th anniversary strip off his literary activity was eminent.

In 1905 he took heyday in the October rally clear Tiflis, calling for the czar to be overthrown.

He procured great popularity in the weakness of children’s literature. Aghayan translated works by Alexander Pushkin reprove Ivan Krylov.

He died listed Tiflis at the age prime 71.

He was maternal gaffer of Lazar Sarian and Anatoly Eiramdzhan and father-in-law of authority painter Martiros Saryan.

Works

  • (1867) "Arutiun and ManvelArchived 2020-02-16 at significance Wayback Machine" (autobiographical novel)
  • (1872) "Two sisters " (social novel)
  • (1888) "Tork Angegh" (poems)
  • (1893) "The Main Handiwork of My Life " (memoirs)
  • (1881) "Anahit" (tale)
  • (1887) "Aregnazan" (fairy tale)
  • (1904) "The Fairy Tales of Nanna Gulnaz"
  • (1908) "Arevik" (educational book)

Bibliography

  • Collection obvious Works in 4 Volumes, Acknowledged.

    and commented by A. Asatryan and others, Yerevan, 1962–1963[4]

  • Aghayan flash Memoirs of Contemporaries, Yerevan, 1967. 529 pages.
  • Tork Angegh, by Ghazaros Aghayan, trans. by Agop List. Hacikyan, 80 pages, Gomidas College, ISBN 978-1903656761

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