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Mkrtich Beshiktashlian[lower-alpha 1] (Armenian: Մկրտիչ Պէշիկթաշլեան; 18 August 1828 – 29 November 1868) was an Ottoman Armenian poet, playwright and educator from Constantinople. Considered one of the main representatives of the Romanticist movement in Armenian literature, his work was highly influential on later Armenian authors.[1]

Mkrtich Beshiktashlian
Մկրտիչ Պէշիկթաշլեան
Born(1828-08-18)August 18, 1828
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
DiedNovember 29, 1868(1868-11-29) (aged 40)
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
NationalityArmenian
CitizenshipOttoman
OccupationPoet, educator
StyleRomanticism

Biography


Mkrtich Beshiktashlian was born on 18 August 1828 in the Ortaköy neighborhood of Constantinople. His father, Raphael Beshiktashlian, was one of 12,000 Armenians deported to Constantinople from Anatolia in 1827. Mkrtich's parents and sisters died during his youth. He received his education at institutions run by the Mekhitarist Armenian Catholic order, first in Constantinople, then at the Muradian Gymnasium in Padua, Italy.[1]

He returned to Constantinople in 1846, and the next year he founded the "All-national Society" (Armenian: Համազգեաց ընկերութիւն) cultural organization, which contributed to the contemporary religious, social and literary debates of Constantinople Armenians. In 1856, he founded an Armenian professional theater in Constantinople. Beshiktashlian wrote or translated into Armenian a total of nine dramas, and wrote two comedies. He is considered one of the founders of modern Armenian theater.[1]

Besides his cultural and literary activities, Beshiktashlian also worked as a teacher of Armenian and French at various Armenian schools in Constantinople. Among his students was Srpouhi Dussap, who would go on to become the first female Armenian novelist and one of the major figures of Western Armenian literature.[1]

The Zeitun Rebellion of 1862 by Armenians in the region of Cilicia inspired Beshiktashlian to write a series of famous patriotic poems and songs dedicated to the rebels.[1] Beshiktashlian made contact with delegates from Zeitun who came to Constantinople, and conferred with a Polish prince about joint revolutionary activity between Armenians and Poles.[2]

In 1866, Beshiktashlian joined the newly founded "Ser" (Love) Masonic lodge, which mostly consisted of other Constantinople Armenian intellectuals. Its members wrote on various social, economic, political and philosophical subjects, and advocated for reforms for the Armenians living in the provinces.[2]

He died of tuberculosis in 1868 at the age of 40. He was buried in an Armenian cemetery in the Şişli district of Constantinople.


Works



Historical Tragedies



Translations



Musical comedies



Poems



Notes


  1. Reformed orthography: Մկրտիչ Պեշիկթաշլյան. Also transliterated as Mgrdich, Mugurdich, Mugurditch, Megerdich, Mekertitch; Peshiktashlian, Peshiktashlyan.

References


  1. Safaryan, V. H. (1968). "Մկրտիչ Պեշիկթաշլյան (Մահվան 100-ամյակի առթիվ)" [Mkrtich Peshiktashlyan (On the 100th anniversary of his death)] (PDF). Patma-Banasirakan Handes (4): 185–192. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
  2. Nalbandian, Louise (1975). The Armenian Revolutionary Movement. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press. pp. 71–77. ISBN 0-520-00914-2.



На других языках

- [en] Mkrtich Beshiktashlian

[ru] Бешигташлян, Мгрдич

Мгрдич Бешигташлян (арм. Մկրտիչ Պէշիկթաշլեան; 18 августа 1828, Константинополь — 29 ноября 1868, Константинополь) — армянский поэт, драматург, актер, режиссёр и общественный деятель.


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