Tigran Tschögürian
Dikran Chökürian (also Chökürian / Tcheugurian ; Western Armenian Տիգրան Չէօկիւրեան; Eastern Armenian իգրան Չյոկուրյան Tigran Tschjokurjan , Turkish Dikran Çöğüryan * 1884 in Gumushane , Ottoman Empire , † 1915 in Ayaş in Ankara ) was an Armenian novelist, editor, painter, writer, editor of Vosdan newspaper (in Armenian Ոստան, “The Capital”) and victim of the Armenian genocide .
He finished the Berberian College of Istanbul in 1907 and then worked as a teacher in Armenian schools. Dikran Tschjogurjan became known in 1910 through the publication of the book "Voices of the Homeland" ( Haireni zainer / Հայրենի Ձայներ), which contains various short stories. In 1914 he published the novel "Das Kloster" ( Wanke / Վանքը).
Together with his brother, who was also a writer and journalist, as well as other Armenian intellectuals, he was on April 24, 1915 arrested and killed in the same year in Ayaş near Ankara.
literature
- Armenian Question , encyclopedia, ed. By acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 373
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| SURNAME | Tschögürjan, Dikran |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Chökürian, Dikran; Tcheugurian, dikran; Chyokuryan, Tigran; Çöğüryan, Dikran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian teacher, journalist and genocide victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gümüşhane , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1915 |
| Place of death | Ayas near Ankara |