Melkon Gürdjian

Melkon Hrand Gürdjian or Giurdjian ( Armenian Մելքոն (Հրանդ) Կիւրճեան ; * 1859 in Palu near Harput ; † 1915 in Ankara , Ottoman Empire ) was an Armenian writer , professor and civil rights activist .

Melkon Gürdjian was born in the village of Havav in the Palu region. He attended the local Armenian school. At the age of eleven, Gürdjian moved to Istanbul , where he attended the Armenian Jemaran School in Üsküdar . After graduating from Jemaran School and Surp Haç Tbrevank , he became a teacher from 1878 to 1896. He taught Armenian history , language and culture in numerous Armenian schools, such as the Getronagan Ermeni Lisesi .

In 1893 he was imprisoned for his first political activity. Because of the political instability he moved to Varna in Bulgaria . There he founded the Armenian Artzrunian school , which served as a refuge for Armenian refugees. While he was away in Istanbul, his home was searched by local police and many of his manuscripts and writings were burned. He returned in 1898 and was arrested immediately upon his return. After spending six months in prison, Gürdjian fled to Kastamonu , where he remained for the next ten years. During his stay in Kastamonu, he secretly taught Armenian literature and history. In 1906 his literary works were destroyed again based on reports from secret agents. When the Young Turk Revolution took place in 1908 , Gürdjian returned to Istanbul and began to participate in civic and literary activities again.

death

On "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915, Melkon Gürdjian was deported together with other prominent intellectuals and personalities of the Armenians in Istanbul to unknown destinations within Ottoman Turkey and finally in the course of the genocide of the Armenians in the outskirts of Ankara Turkish gendarmes killed.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Agop J. Hacikyan: The Heritage of Armenian Literature From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. Ed .: Wayne State Univ Pr. Detroit 2005, ISBN 978-0-8143-3221-4 , pp. 489–491 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
^ Palu - Population movements. Houshamadyan, accessed September 28, 2012 .
↑ Ölume giden sürgün. (No longer available online.) Koxuz, archived from the original on September 8, 2011 ; Retrieved September 28, 2012 (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. @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Gürdjian, Melkon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giurdjian, Melkon; Hrand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Armenian writer, university professor and civil rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1859
PLACE OF BIRTH	Palu, Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	1915
Place of death	Ankara , Ottoman Empire

[Hacikyan-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Agop J. Hacikyan: The Heritage of Armenian Literature From The Eighteenth Century To Modern Times. Ed .: Wayne State Univ Pr. Detroit 2005, ISBN 978-0-8143-3221-4 , pp. 489–491 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Palu - Population movements. Houshamadyan, accessed September 28, 2012 .

[3] Ölume giden sürgün. (No longer available online.) Koxuz, archived from the original on September 8, 2011 ; Retrieved September 28, 2012 (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. @1@ 2