Levon Larents

Larents' translation of HFB Lynch's Armenia

Levon Larents (Kirishchiyan) ( Armenian Լեւոն Լարենց (Քիրիշճեան) , * 1875 in Samatya , Istanbul , † 1915 in Ankara ) was an Armenian writer, translator, journalist, poet and teacher. He was the editor and founder of numerous newspapers and translated the Koran into the Armenian language. During the Armenian genocide , Larents was deported to Ankara and killed.

Life

Levon Larents received his education at the local Robert College , which he graduated in 1902. During his school days, Larents published the monthly magazine Zepur with his classmates Yenovk Armen and Hrand Esayan . He then worked for the Puzantion on short notice and then went to Adapazari , where he taught 'The History of Civilization' at the local Getronagan School.

In 1905 Larents went to the United States and became a member of the reform movement in the Huntschak party . In Boston , Massachusetts , Larents was the editor of the local Armenian newspaper Tsayn Hayreneats, or "Voice of the Fatherland" , for two years . He later moved to Alexandria , Egypt , and worked in a wholesale company. In Alexandria he wrote for the newspaper Azad Pern . After the death of Arpiar Arpiarian , Larents moved to Athens . After the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908, Larents returned to Istanbul , where he was editor-in-chief of Murj and Tsayn Hayreneats for two years . In Istanbul he published a book on poetry called Trahkdi Yerker or "Songs of Heaven". He translated several works from French and English into Armenian, including HFB Lynch's "Armenia", published in 1913. In 1911 he translated the Koran into Armenian.

death

Levon Larents was one of the Armenian intellectuals who were arrested on "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915. He was first deported with other members of the Armenian elite to Ayas , then to Ankara , where he was killed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Teotoros Lapçinciyan : Houshartsun nahadoug medavoraganouti . 1919, p. 19 (Armenian, digitized in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Rober Koptaş : 1915 'in Robert Kolejli kurbanları. (No longer available online.) Agos April 27, 2013, archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2014 (Turkish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Vartan Mattiosian: The First Historian of Armenian Printing. Armenian Weekly, September 2, 2012, accessed February 9, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Harutiun Mekeryan: Mikayel S. Giurjian: His Life and Work . Mayreni, Monterey, CA 2005, ISBN 978-1-931834-12-4 , pp. 126 ( digitized version in the Google book search).
5. ↑ ^{a b} Haigazn K. Kazarian: Opening of the Turkish Genocide of 1915-1918: Arrest and Murder of the Armenian Intellectuals . In: The Armenian Review . 24, No. 3, Autumn 1971, ISSN  0004-2366 , p. 22. "Levon (Larentz): educator and translator of HFB Lynch's" Armenia ". Murdered at Ankara. "