Hakob Paronian

Hakob Paronian was born in 1843 in Adrianople into a poor family; after a year at the town's Greek school, he had to work, for two years in a pharmacy and then as an accountant in a tobacco company, and he taught himself. Having arrived in Constantinople in the 1860s, he taught at Scutari, where Bedros Tourian was his pupil, then entered the press in 1871 and edited satirical newspapers. None of his comedies was staged in his lifetime. He died of tuberculosis in 1891, penniless.

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• NovelHonourable BeggarsՄեծապատիվ մուրացկաններHakob Paronian · 1880LiteraturePublic domain