Ardasches Harutünjan

Portrait of Ardasches Harutunian

Ardasches Harutünjan ( Western Armenian Արտաշես Յարութիւնեան, Eastern Armenian Արտաշես Հարությունյան Artashes Harutyunyan ; pseudonyms Manischak , Ban , Schahen-Garo and Garo , * 1873 in Malkara , Ottoman Empire ; † 16th August 1915 in İzmit ) was an Armenian writer, translator from French and Literary critic. He fell victim to the Armenian genocide .

Harutünjan was born in Malkara near Tekirdağ and has lived in Istanbul since 1912 , where he worked as a teacher and wrote for Armenian newspapers. Harutjunjan published his first volume of poetry Lkuads Knar / Լքուած քնար ("abandoned lyre") in 1902. The next two compilations, Երկունք / Jergunk ("birth") and Nor Knar / Նոր քնար ("new lyre"), were published in 1906 and 1906 respectively. Published in 1912. He was one of the first literary critics of contemporary Armenian poets such as Misag Medzarents , Taniel Varuschan and Siamanto .

He was arrested in Üsküdar on July 28, 1915 and ill-treated at the police station. When his father went to visit him, he was also arrested. Father and son were brought to İzmit along with 26 other Armenians and held in the Armenian church, which was used as a prison. On August 16, 1915, they were killed near Derbent .

After Ardasches Harutünjan's death, his poems were published in Paris (1937) and Yerevan (1968). The main theme of Harutjunjan's poetry was love, romance and humanism ("The vagabond in the night", "Dawn", "Window").

literature

• Agop Jack Hacikyan, Edward S. Franchuk, Nourhan Ouzounian and Gabriel Basmajian (Eds.): The Heritage of Armenian Literature From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. tape 3 . Wayne State Univ Pr, Detroit 2005, ISBN 0-8143-3221-8 , pp. 690-1 ( here in the Google book search).
• "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. By acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan , 1996, p. 283
• Tseghin sir. Arevmtahay banasteghtsutyun. Arevik, Yerevan 1991, ISBN 5807703006 , p. 706 (Armenian)