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Khachatur Abovian

Died in 1848

Khachatur Abovian (1809-1848) was born in Kanaker, near Yerevan, then under Persian administration, and was educated at the monastery of Echmiadzin and then at the Nersisian school in Tiflis. In 1829 he accompanied the naturalist Friedrich Parrot on the first attested ascent of Ararat, which earned him a scholarship to the University of Dorpat, where he studied for six years. Back in the Caucasus, he was a school inspector in Tiflis and then in Yerevan, clashed with the clergy over teaching in the living language, and saw almost nothing of what he wrote published. He left his house one morning in April 1848 and never returned.

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