Kegham Parseghian

Kegham Parseghian ( Armenian Գեղամ Բարսեղեան , Turkish Keğam Parseğyan ; * 1883 in Gedik Paşa, Istanbul , † 1915 in Ankara , Ottoman Empire ) was an Armenian writer, columnist, teacher, journalist and activist. He was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and a victim of the Armenian genocide .

Life

Kegham Parseghian first went to the Mesrobian School of Istanbul. Until 1896 he attended the Armenian Getronagan high school in Karaköy . After going to France for a year to attend social and political science courses in Paris , he began to publish his first literary works in Armenian magazines and newspapers. Parseghian then became chief columnist and finally editor of the newspapers Surhandak and Azadamard . From 1909 to 1910 he published the literary magazine Aztak . Parseghian was one of the founders of the literary magazine Mehian (Temple) and worked here alongside writers such as Gostan Zarian , Taniel Varuschan and Hagop Oshagan .

On “Red Sunday” , April 24, 1915, Kegham Parseghian was arrested and taken to Ayaş near Ankara , where he was killed. His works were published in Paris in 1931 .

Works (selection)

Aparni kaghakin khutarkiche (The Prober of the Future City)
Spasumes kakhaghani vra (As I Wait on the Gallows)
Mesian kuga (The Messiah is Coming)
Oragir (Journal)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b ^c Agop Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk: The Heritage of Armenian Literature Volume III: From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times . Ed .: Nourhan Ouzounian. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI 2005, ISBN 0-8143-2815-6 , pp. 826–827, 1072 ( here in Google book search [accessed October 19, 2011]).
↑ ^a ^b Grigoris Palak'ean : Le Golgotha arménien: de Berlin à Deir-es-Zor . 1st edition. Le Cerle d'Écrits Caucasiens, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre 2002, ISBN 978-2-913564-08-4 , pp. 87-94 .

personal data
SURNAME	Parseghian, Kegham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Բարսեղեան, Գեղամ (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian writer, columnist, publicist, teacher, editor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gedik Paşa, Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1915
Place of death	Ankara , Ottoman Empire

[Hacikyan-1] A ^b ^c Agop Hacikyan, Gabriel Basmajian, Edward S. Franchuk: The Heritage of Armenian Literature Volume III: From the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times . Ed .: Nourhan Ouzounian. Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI 2005, ISBN 0-8143-2815-6 , pp. 826–827, 1072 ( here in Google book search [accessed October 19, 2011]).

[Bal87-2] Grigoris Palak'ean : Le Golgotha arménien: de Berlin à Deir-es-Zor . 1st edition. Le Cerle d'Écrits Caucasiens, La Ferté-sous-Jouarre 2002, ISBN 978-2-913564-08-4 , pp. 87-94 .