Perchouhi Partizpanjan-Barseghjan

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Perchouhi Partizpanjan-Barseghjan ( Berdjouhi, Etna ( pseudonyms ), Armenian Պերճուհի Պարտիզպանեան-Բարսեղեան ; * 1886 in Edirne , Ottoman Empire , † May 5, 1940 in Paris ), was an Armenian politician and author. She was one of the first three women in the 80-member parliament of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Armenia .

Life

Perchouhi Partizpanjan was born in Edirne in 1886. At the age of 16 she met her future husband. Sargis Barseghjan was a member of the Armenian revolutionary movement and leader of the Armenian militias (fedayeen) that were active in eastern Turkey. On the initiative of her husband, she founded the "Union of Armenian Women" (Հայ կանանց միություն). Partizpanjan studied literature and education in Geneva . Using the pseudonym Etna, she wrote short stories that were published in a collection called "After the Storm".

Partizpanjan's marriage was short-lived. Her husband was arrested in April 1915 and killed in what was then Constantinople . His widow lived and taught in Sofia , Tbilisi and Yerevan .

Partizpanjan-Barseghjan was one of the members of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation founded in 1890 ("Dashnaken"). On May 28, 1918, the first Republic of Armenia became independent. The young republic gave itself universal suffrage for men and women over the age of 20. Since there was no strong women's suffrage movement in Tsarist Russia , it was Armenian migrants who brought this idea with them from Western Europe. She stood as a candidate and was elected MPs on June 21 and 23, 1919 with Katarine Salian-Manoukian and Warwara Sahakjan . During her time in Parliament, she coordinated the collaboration with the American Committee for Relief in the Near East .

On November 29, 1920, Armenian Bolsheviks took power without bloodshed and on December 2, 1920 proclaimed the Soviet Republic. Four days later marched 11th Army of the Red Army one. As a result, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed, which in December 1922 co-founded the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Partizpanjan-Barseghjan left the country like many others. In 1924 she went to Paris with her son Armen via Sofia. There she worked in the office of Nansenhilfe and continued her literary work.

Pertchuhi Partizpanjan-Barseghjan died on May 5, 1940.

Works (selection)

  • է բանաստեղծություններ Էտնա (Is poetry coming ?) , before 1909.
  • Հայրենիքս (My Homeland) , 1915.
  • Բարսեղեան, Պերճուհի. Փոթորիկէն վեր (After the storm) . Navarre, Paris 1932.
  • Արփիկը (Arpik)
  • As “Berdjouhi”: Jours de cendres à Istanbul (Խանձված օրեր, autobiography); translated into French by Armen Barseghian. Marseille 2004.
  • Խանձված օրեր ( days of need , autobiography); Edited by Hakob Palian. Hamazkayin, Beirut 2016.

See also

  • Diana Abgar (1859–1937), Armenian ambassador to Japan in 1920.

literature

  • Sona Zeytlyan: The Role of Armenian Women in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement . Los Angeles 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Women's Suffrage. The Armenian Formula . (English, accessed on August 28, 2019)
  2. ^ Armenians today: The women MPs of the First Republic of Armenia . (English, May 25, 2015)
  3. ↑ Armen Barseghian (1914–2003), lawyer in France; see: Barseghian, Armen . ( DNB , accessed on August 28, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Partizpanjan-Barseghjan, Perchouhi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Etna (pseudonym); Berdjouhi (pseudonym); Barseghian, Berdjouhi (French name); Partizpanjan, Perchouhi (maiden name); Պարտիզպանեան-Բարսեղեան, Պերճուհի (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Edirne
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1940
Place of death Paris