Melkon Gurjian

Melkon Gurjian, who signed Hrand, was born in 1859 in the village of Havav, near Palu. At eleven, against his family's wishes, he left to study in Constantinople, and from 1878 he taught Classical and modern Armenian and history; the linguist Hrachia Adjarian was his pupil. Having taken refuge in Varna in 1896, where he founded a school for refugee children, he was arrested on his return in 1898 and exiled for ten years to Kastamonu. He returned in 1908, was arrested in April 1915, and was killed a few months later.

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• ChronicleՊանդուխտի կեանքէնMelkon Gurjian · 1888not translated into EnglishLiterature