Kegham Parseghian (Գեղամ Բարսեղեան) (1883 – 1915), was an

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writer, teacher, editor, and journalist.

Biography

Kegham Parseghian was born in the Gedik Paşa district of

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. He attended the local Mesrobian school and continued his studies at the Getronagan Varjaran (Central Lyceum) until 1896. After spending a year in

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, he published his first literary pieces in

periodicals and newspapers of the time. Then he became a chief columnist and editor of the newspapers ''Surhantag'' (Սուրհանդակ) and ''Azatamart'' (Ազատամարտ, 1909–1915). He was one of the editors of the literary review ''Aztag'' (Ազդակ, 1908–1909). He was one of the founding members of the short lived literary monthly ''Mehian'' (Մեհեան, 1914) and worked along famed writers such as

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and Aharon Dadurian. A complete collection of his works was published in 1931 by the Society of Friends of Martyred Writers in Paris. During the

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, on 24 April 1915, Parseghian was apprehended and taken to Ayaş near

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where he was killed.Georges Balakian: ''Le Golgotha arménien'', Le cercle d'écrits caucasiens, La Ferté-Sous-Jouarre 2002 (vol. 1) pp. 87-94

References

1883 births 1915 deaths Armenian-language writers People who died in the Armenian genocide Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Writers from Istanbul Journalists from the Ottoman Empire 20th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Date of birth missing Date of death unknown {{Armenia-genocide-stub