Avetics Issahakyan

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USSR postage stamp, Avetics Issahakyan, 1975, 4 kopecks

Avetik Issahakjan ( Armenian Աւետիք Իսահակեան , reformed Ավետիք Իսահակյան, Russian Аветик Саакович Исаакян Avetik Saakowitsch Isaakjan ; born October 7, jul. / 19th October  1875 greg. In Ghazarapat in Alexandropol , now Gyumri , Russian empire ; † 17th October 1957 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR ) was an Armenian author and activist.

Life

Avetik Issahakjan, born in Alexandropol in 1875, studied philosophy and anthropology at the Kevorkian seminar in Etschmiadzin and later at the University of Leipzig . In 1895, after his return from Leipzig , he joined the committee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation , for which he was imprisoned for one year in 1896.

He later studied literature and philosophy at the University of Zurich . In 1902 he returned to Armenia and moved to Tbilisi .

Together with 158 other Armenian intellectuals, he was imprisoned again in 1908 (as was Hovhannes Tumanjan ). In 1911 Issahakjan left the country for Germany, where he took part in the German-Armenian movement and wrote for the magazine " Mesrob ".

In 1936 Issahakjan returned to Armenia, where he was elected to the Armenian Academy of Sciences in 1943 . In 1946 he received the Stalin Prize .

plant

  • "The pipe of patience", 1928
  • I dream Poem. Issahakjan, Awetik, In: Sinn und Form 1975, p. 1019.
  • 2. Soul - drifting bird mine. In a dream I see the evening parting peacefully ... If death hits me one day too ... That one loses what one loved ... Homeland smoke. Issahakjan, Avetik, In: The flaming thorn bush. Poetry from the Soviet Union. Selection and compilation by Vladimir Ognew 1987, pp. 32–35.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Review of Sehnsucht ohne Ende , a compilation of Armenian stories