Moses The Kalousdian

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Moses Der Kalousdian (* 1895 in Yogounurluk , Ottoman Empire , † 1984 in Beirut ), (Armenian Մոզես Դեր Քալ ուսթյան, often also Movses ) was an Armenian resistance fighter at the time of the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 . It served Franz Werfel as a template for the fictional character of Gabriel Bagradian in the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh .

Life

As a former officer in the Ottoman army , Der Kalousdian led the inhabitants of the villages of Vakef , Yoghun-Oluk , Khedrbek , Haji Habibli and Keboussik to the Musa Dagh in 1915 , where they armed only with saddle guns and hunting rifles set up fortifications and successfully fought against it for 53 days defended several waves of Turkish attacks. On September 12, 1915, the French warship Guichen came to the aid of the oppressed Christians. Together with three other Allied ships, it saved 4048 Armenians, including The Kalousdian.

Kalousdian entered the French army as an Armenian general and served there as an adjutant. He was later elected to the parliament of the Syrian Republic by the Armenian minority in the Antakya constituency (1932 and 1936) and in 1943, after the separation of Syria and Lebanon , to the Lebanese parliament. In 1947, 1951, 1953, 1957, 1960 and 1964 he also won a mandate for the Lebanese parliament in Beirut .

reception

Among those saved was a pastor from the Armenian Evangelical Church named Dikran Andreasian, who kept a record of the resistance. Werfel used these notes in turn for his novel.

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supporting documents

  1. ↑ Armenian Reporter: Musa Dagh Mountain of legends. (pdf; 1.4 MB) CS Media Enterprises, August 25, 2007, pp. C5, C8 , accessed on December 22, 2008 (English).
  2. ↑ 2006-02-01 Music for Ascending the Mountain: The Place of Beginnings: Songs of Light & Peace (English)
  3. ↑ Daniel Steinvorth: The Children of Musa Dagh. Spiegel Online , May 21, 2007, p. 2 , accessed December 22, 2008 .
  4. ↑ Mousalaer - Anjar History (English); Stanley Elphinstone Kerr: The Lions of Marash . 1973, ISBN 978-0-87395-200-2 , pp. 149, 289 (English, Google Book Search ).
  5. ^ Nicola Migliorino: (Re) constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis . Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-352-7 , pp. 61 (English, Google Book Search ).
  6. ^ Nicola Migliorino: (Re) constructing Armenia in Lebanon and Syria: Ethno-cultural Diversity and the State in the Aftermath of a Refugee Crisis . Berghahn Books, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84545-352-7 , pp. 61, 96, 103 and 108 (English, Google Book Search ).
  7. ↑ V. Bryce: 130. Jibal Mousa: The Defense of the Mountain and the Rescue of its Defenders by the French Fleet. In: The Treatment of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire 1915-1916. Harold B. Lee Library, accessed December 22, 2008 .
  8. ↑ Peter Stephan Jungk: Franz Werfel and 'The forty days of Musa Dagh'. (No longer available online.) PEN Center for German-Language Authors Abroad, 2006, archived from the original on April 13, 2015 ; Retrieved December 22, 2008 .
personal data
SURNAME Kalousdian, Moses Der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Մոզես Դեր Քալուսթյան (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian resistance fighter at the time of the Turkish genocide against the Armenians in 1915
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Yogounurluk , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1984
Place of death Beirut