Nazareth Daghavarian

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nazareth Daghavarian

Nazaret Daghavarian or Chaderjian ( Armenian Նազարէթ Տաղաւարեան , Turkish Dağavaryan or Çadırcıyan , * 1862 in Sivas , Ottoman Empire ; † 1915 in Karacaören ) was an Armenian doctor, agronomist , member of the Ottoman Parliament and one of the founders of the Armenian General Charity Union (AGBU). He wrote non-fiction books on medicine, history and religion, including the Turkish Alevis . He was a victim of the Armenian genocide .

Life

He moved to Istanbul at the age of seven , graduated from colleges there and studied agricultural science at the University of Paris . He was the director of Armenian schools in Vilayet Sivas as well as the principal of the Aramian School and director of the Armenian Hospital in Istanbul. In 1887 he studied medicine at the Sorbonne. Back in Istanbul he was arrested and released through the mediation of the French embassy and moved to Cairo in 1905 , where he worked as a doctor and as a teacher. There he took part in the founding of the AGBU charity . After the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908, he returned to Istanbul and was elected a member of the Chamber of Deputies for his constituency of Sivas and the Armenian National Central Committee.

On "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915, he was arrested like other Armenians in Istanbul and murdered on the way of deportation : He was taken from Ayaş prison on May 5 and together with Agnuni , Harutün Jangülian, Karekin Khajag , Sarkis Minassian and Zartarian were brought to a court martial in Diyarbakır , accompanied by a military escort . There they were killed in a village called Karacaören just before they arrived in Diyarbakır.

Works

Nazareth Daghavarian also did research on the Alevis in the Ottoman Empire and published a book on the emergence of Christian Protestantism and the Tariqa of the Kizilbash . Showing carefully examined the religious views of the Alevis, he noted that Alevism himself outwards as Islam is, but its roots in the Manichaeism of the 4th to the 7th century, and later the Paulikianern and Tondrakians the 10th to 11th Century. He found numerous similarities and overlaps between the Turkish Kizilbash and the Protestants.

swell

  • The Doctors who became Victims of the Great Calamity , G. Karoyan, Boston, 1957
  • "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. By acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 439

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christopher Walker: Armenia, the survival of a nation . Croom Helm, 1980, p. 386 ( online ).
  2. ^ ↑ Ottoman Archives of the Office of the Prime Minister : DH. EUM. 2. Şb. 67/31, file Sarınay, İstanbul'da Ermeni Faaliyetleri ve Alınan Tedbirler (1914-1918) .
personal data
SURNAME Daghavarian, Nazareth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chaderjian, Nazareth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian doctor, agronomist, Ottoman member of parliament and founder of the AGBU
DATE OF BIRTH 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Sivas , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1915
Place of death Karacaoren