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Arpiar Arpiarian

Died in 1908

Arpiar Arpiarian was born on 21 December 1851 aboard a ship that was taking his family, originally from Akn, from Samsun to Constantinople. A pupil at the Mourad-Raphaélian college in Venice, he was a secretary at the patriarchate, founded the newspaper Arevelk and edited the Masis, around which he gathered the realist writers. A member of the Hunchak party, arrested in 1890, he left the Empire in 1896 for London, Venice and Paris, then edited reviews in Cairo from 1905. He was assassinated there on 12 February 1908.

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