Daniel Waruschan

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Daniel Waruschan
Varushan before 1915.

Daniel Tschpugkarjan (in Armenian Դանիէլ Չպուքքեարեան Taniel Tchboukkiarian ), called Waruschan ( Դանիէլ Վարուժան Taniel Varoujan ; born April 20, 1884 in Perknik , Sivas , Ottoman Empire ; † (murdered) probably April 24, 1915 in Çankırı , Vilâyet Kastamonu ), was one of them of the most important Armenian poets of the 20th century and a prominent victim of the Ottoman genocide against the Armenians .

Life

Daniel Tschpugkarjan was born on April 20, 1884 in Brgnik or Perknik, a few kilometers from Sivas (Sebaste), in Central Anatolia. In 1896 he was sent to Constantinople , where he attended the Armenian Catholic Mchitarian school. Because of his achievements, his teachers sent him to the Armenian high school Murat-Raphaelian in Venice , which he graduated in 1905. From 1906 he studied literature and social sciences at the University of Ghent in Belgium . He published his first poems during his studies.

After graduating, he returned to Turkey in 1909. In the same year he published the volume of poetry Zeghin Sirde ( Ցեղին սիրտը; "The Heart of the Nation"), the texts of which were also partially published in newspapers. He then went back to his home province of Sivas as a primary school teacher. In 1912 he moved with his family again to Istanbul, where he took over the management of an Armenian school. In that year he also published his second major work: Het'anos Erger (Հեթանոս երգեր, "Pagan Chants").

In 1914 he founded the literary group Mehian (Temple) with Gostan Zarian, among others, with the aim of reviving the Armenian , pre-Christian and pagan spirit.

He was arrested by representatives of the Ottoman government near Istanbul on "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915, along with about 200 other Armenian intellectuals including his poet colleagues Rupen Sevag and Siamanto , and either immediately after arriving in the Çankırı prison camp or in a ravine murdered on the way from there to Ankara. These arrests and killings sparked the Armenian genocide.

A memorial plaque was placed in the library hall of the University of Ghent .

Major works

  • Sarsurner (Սարսուռներ, "Shiver"), 1906
  • Zeghin Sirde (Ցեղին սիրտը; "The Heart of the Nation"), 1909
  • Het'anos Erger (Հեթանոս երգեր, "Pagan Chants"), 1912
  • Hazin Yerge (Հացին Երգը, "The song of bread"), 1921 (posthumously)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tessa Hofmann: Approaching Armenia. Past and present , p. 224.
  2. ^ A b Raymond Kévorkian: Le Génocide des Arméniens , p. 663.
  3. ^ A b Daniel Waruschan (1884-1915) - curriculum vitae , translated by Noubar Guedelekian and Vasrik Bazil, Armenian Church and Cultural Community Berlin, May 2008.
  4. ↑ Nanor Kebranian: Armenian Poetry and Poetics. In: Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman et al. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 4th edition. Princeton University Press, Princeton 2012, ISBN 978-0-691-13334-8 , p. 85 ( limited previewhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DuKiC6IeFR2UC~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3DPA85~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3Deineschr%C3%A4nkte%20Vorschau~PUR%3D in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Yves Ternon : The Armenians. History of a Genocide , p. 331.
personal data
SURNAME Varuschan, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschpugkarjan, Daniel; Varoujan, Daniel; Varoujan, Taniel; Վարուժան, Դանիէլ (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Perknik , Vilâyet Sivas , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1915
Place of death Çankırı , Vilayet Kastamonu