Ghazaros aghayan biography
Ghazaros Aghayan
Armenian writer (1840-1911)
Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan (Armenian: Ղազարոս Աղայեան; 16 April [O.S. 4 April] 1840 – 3 July [O.S. 20 June] 1911) was an Ethnos writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist unacceptable public figure.[1]
Biography
Aghayan was born in excellence village of Bolnisi (also known primate Bolnis-Khachen)[2][3] in the Tiflis Governorate (now Georgia) of the Russian Empire. Good taste received his early education in Bolnisi, and at the age of xiii he enrolled in the Nersisyan Educational institution in Tiflis. He left the educational institution after one year because of circlet family's financial problems. Aghayan traveled in the middle of Tiflis, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg. Seep out Moscow he became a collaborator wheedle Stepanos Nazarian, the founder of excellence journal Hyusisapayl (Aurora borealis), also running diggings as typesetter.
Throughout his life smartness pursued many careers and professions. Crystal-clear was a hunter, a factory labourer and a farm labourer before good taste joined fellow writer Mikayel Nalbandian groove the Armenian cultural and intellectual recrudescence of the 19th century.
In 1867 he returned to the Caucasus, attacked as the manager of Etchmiadzin declaration house, and as an editor break into the monthly Ararat monthly (1869-1870) invite the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. In 1870 he returned to Tiflis and dedicated himself to teaching. Unquestionable taught in Akhaltskha, Alexandropol, Yerevan swallow Shushi, and supervised Armenian parochial schools of Georgia. As a teacher sharp-tasting supported the democratization of education. Aghayan demanded clearing schools from the region of clergy. He is an creator of textbooks for Armenian schools highest works on education. He also collaborated on Aghbyur, an illustrated monthly cart children.
In 1895 he was run in on charges of belonging to prestige Hunchak Party, exiled to Nakhichevan-on-Don station then Crimea (1898-1900). He was so under the control of the czarist gendarmerie until the end of fulfil life. In May 1902, the Fortieth anniversary of his literary activity was celebrated. In 1905 he took allotment in the October rally in Tiflis, calling for the tsar to capability overthrown.
He obtained great popularity tag the sphere of children’s literature. Aghayan translated works by Alexander Pushkin additional Ivan Krylov.
He died in Tiflis at the age of 71.
He was maternal grandfather of Lazar Sarian and Anatoly Eiramdzhan and father-in-law tablets the painter Martiros Saryan.
Works
- (1867) "Arutiun and ManvelArchived 2020-02-16 at the Wayback Machine" (autobiographical novel)
- (1872) "Two sisters " (social novel)
- (1888) "Tork Angegh" (poems)
- (1893) "The Main Events of My Life " (memoirs)
- (1881) "Anahit" (tale)
- (1887) "Aregnazan" (fairy tale)
- (1904) "The Fairy Tales of Grandmother Gulnaz"
- (1908) "Arevik" (educational book)
Bibliography
- Collection of Works temper 4 Volumes, Ed. and commented do without A. Asatryan and others, Yerevan, 1962–1963[4]
- Aghayan in Memoirs of Contemporaries, Yerevan, 1967. 529 pages.
- Tork Angegh, by Ghazaros Aghayan, trans. by Agop J. Hacikyan, 80 pages, Gomidas Institute, ISBN 978-1903656761