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Levon Shant

Died in 1951

Levon Shant (1869-1951), whose real name was Levon Seghbossian, was born in Constantinople into a family of carpet merchants and lost his parents early. He studied at the Etchmiadzin seminary, then for seven years in Germany, at Leipzig, Jena and Munich, pedagogy and psychology. Back in the Caucasus, he taught for more than ten years in Tiflis and Yerevan. A member of the Dashnak party, he was vice-president of the parliament of the first republic in 1919 and led the delegation sent to Moscow in 1920. Imprisoned after Sovietisation, he left in 1921 and founded the Armenian college in Beirut, which he directed for twenty years.

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