Minas Cheras
Minas Tscheras ( Armenian Մինաս Չերազ ; born July 25, 1852 in Hasköy in Constantinople , † 1929 in Marseille , France ) was an Armenian writer and teacher and a figure in public life. He was a grandson of Kaspar Amira Tscherasian and brother of Kaspar Tscheras .
Minas Tscheras received his education at the Nersessian and Nubar-Shahnasarian schools in Hasköy. He taught at various Armenian schools and became secretary to Patriarch Nerses II Varjapetian . In 1878 he accompanied the Armenian delegation to the Berlin Congress as a translator and secretary . Even after the congress he maintained talks with British and Russian politicians on the Armenian question. 1886-89 he was rector of the Armenian Getronagan high school in Constantinople. In 1889 he fled Constantinople to London, where he published the newspaper L'Arménie-Armenia and promoted the Armenian cause. 1898-1908 he lived in Paris. After the fall of Sultan Abdülhamid II , he returned to Constantinople for two years. From 1910 to 1929 he lived in France.
Works (selection)
- Writing attempts , Constantinople 1874 (Armenian poetry, speeches, reviews)
- Nouvelles Orientales , Paris 1911 (French stories)
- Dambaran , New York 1920 (Armenian prose together with Yeghia Demirdschibaschian)
Web link
- Wahan Ischchanjan: A distant nephew remembers Minas Cheraz (armenianow.com, March 30, 2007, English [and Armenian], accessed March 15, 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cheras, Minas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Çeraz, Minas; Cheraz, Minas; Ceraz, Minas; Մինաս, Մինաս (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian educator and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haskoy , Constantinople |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1929 |
| Place of death | Marseille |