Teotoros Lapçinciyan

Teotoros Lapçinciyan

Teotig - pseudonym Teotig ( Armenian Թէոդիկ ) - (* 1873 in Constantinople Opel ; † on the night of May 23 to 24. May 1928 in Paris ) was an Armenian author, a witness of the Ottoman genocide of Armenians and researchers.

Teotoros Lapçinciyan was born in Constantinople in 1873. He attended the Berberian School in Scutari and the Robert College in Constantinople. He first wrote v. a. Travel reports and life stories for various Armenian newspapers. He was best known for his almanac. His wife Arshaguhi Teotig came up with the idea of ​​publishing Jedermanns Almanach ( Armenian Ամէնուն Տարեցոյցը ). He and his wife published the successful almanac annually from 1907 to 1923 in Constantinople, finally in Vienna and from 1925 to 1928 in Paris. In 1914 it was subtitled the small encyclopedia of the free Armenian (Ազատ Հայուն Պզտիկ Հանրագիտարանը). Teotig was sentenced to two years in prison for the 1914 edition of his almanac for allegedly publishing military secrets. After serving his sentence in 1916, he was deported to Der Zor in the Mesopotamian desert. Teotig was on the same train as the patriarch of Constantinople, Zaven Der Yeghiayan , who had been deposed by the Ottoman government , on his way to exile in Baghdad. Teotik managed to escape. For a short time, Teotik shared a hiding place with Krikor Balakian in Pozantı , a stage on the deportation routes . He found work under a false name on the tunnel construction sites of the Baghdad Railway in the Taurus Mountains . Individual German and Swiss engineers tried to employ as many Armenian deportees as possible. Teotik became treasurer of the Tashdurmaz route. A collective edition of the Almanac 1920 was published for the years 1916 to 1920, in which the individual fates of the best-known murdered and survivors of the genocide of the Armenians were presented. After his liberation, Teotik taught in an Armenian orphanage in Corfu. In Cyprus he worked as an accountant at the Melkonian Institute. After 1923 he moved to Paris. In the midst of work on the 1929 almanac, Teotoros Lapçinciyan died on the night of May 23rd to May 24th 1928 in the 'Masis' printing works in Paris.

Teotig left behind some important works on the culture and history of the Armenians of Constantinople as well as a systematic description of the Armenian clergy who died in the genocide throughout the Ottoman Empire .

Works (selection)

• Letterpress and letter (Տիպ ու Տառ), Constantinople 1912. (A history of the Armenian printing works from 1512 to 1912 and biographies of their operators.)
• The years in prison and exile , Constantinople
• April 11th Memorial , O. Arzuman, Constantinople 1919 (Original title: Յուշարձան Ապրիլ Տասնըմէկի. Նահատակ Մտաւորականներու)
• The catastrophe and our orphans , Constantinople 1920
• The Golgotha ​​of the Armenian clergy (Գողգոթա Հայ Հոգեւորականութեան Եւ Իր Հօտին Աղէտալի 1915 Տարին), Constantinople 1921. (A representation of over 1,252 clergymen, sorted by region and city, who died during the Turkish genocide 1915–1918, with brief biographical entries. ) Ara Kallaydjian calls it a martyrography ( Մարտիրոսագրութիւն ).

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• Kevork Pamukciyan: Biyografileriyle Ermeniler Istanbul 2003, Aras Verlag
• Zaven Der Yeghiayan : My Patriarchal Memoirs , Mayreni Publishing, Barrington (RI) 2002 ISBN 1-931834-05-9

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