Poor Dorian

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Poor Dorian ( Armenian Արմեն Տորեան * 28. January 1892 as Հրաչյա Սուրենեան Hratschia Surenian in Sinop , † 1915 in Ankara ) was an Armenian poet who in the Ottoman Empire lived. Dorian graduated from the Sorbonne University in Paris . Most of his poetry was written in French and Western Armenian . Dorian was arrested in 1915 and killed at the age of 23 during the Armenian Genocide .

Life

The Armenian origin arms Dorian was born in 1892 as Hratschia Surenian in the Ottoman city of Sinop. Dorian moved to the capital, Istanbul , where he received his education at the mechitaristic Pangaltı High School . Dorian then traveled to France in 1911 and studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris. He joined the French literary scene and founded the French newspaper L'Arène . In 1913 he and other French poets founded the pantheistic literary school. Dorian is said that "during this time in France, symbolists have never seen a youngster with such glowing strength, with a majestic writing style that wrapped such beautiful dreams ..." Dorian returned to Istanbul shortly after graduating from the Sorbonne in 1914 where he became a teacher and taught French and Armenian literature.

assassination

Armen Dorian was arrested on "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915. He was first deported to Çankırı , then imprisoned in Ankara, deported from prison there and, according to Nschan Kalfaian, killed near Ankara in Anatolia when he was only 23 years old .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fatma Müge Göçek: Reconstructing the Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Massacres and Deaths of 1915 . Ed .: Richard G. Hovannisian. Transaction Publishers, ISBN 1-4128-2767-1 , pp. 209-10 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Pars Tuğlacı : Ermeni edebiyatından seçkiler . Cem Yayınevi, Istanbul 1992, ISBN 975-406-401-6 (Turkish, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ a b Fatma Müge Göçek: The transformation of Turkey: redefining state and society from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era . IB Tauris, London 2011, ISBN 1-84885-611-3 , pp. 220 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Dorian, poor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Արմեն Տորյան (Armenian); Surenian, Hratschia (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian poet
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Sinop
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death Ankara