Avetik Isahakyan

Avetik Issahakjan (Armenian Ավետիք Իսահակյան, Russian Аветик Саакович Исаакян; * 7 Oktoberjul / October 19 1875greg in Ghazarapat in Alexandropol, now Gyumri, Russian Empire, .. † October 17, 1957 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR) was an Armenian author and activist.

Life

Born in 1875 Alexandropol Avetik Issahakjan studied at the Kevorkian Seminary in Echmiadzin and later at the University of Leipzig, philosophy and anthropology. 1895, after his return from Leipzig, he joined the Committee of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, for which he was imprisoned in 1896 for one year.

Later he heard Literature and Philosophy at the University of Zurich. In 1902 he returned to Armenia and moved to Tbilisi.

Along with 158 other Armenian intellectuals, he was imprisoned again in 1908 (as well as Hovhannes Tumanyan ). 1911 left the country because of Issahakjan tions Germany, where he participated in the German - Armenian movement and for the journal " Mesrob " wrote.

1936 Issahakjan returned to Armenia, where he was in 1943 elected to the Armenian Academy of Sciences. In 1946 he was awarded the Stalin Prize.

Work

• " The patience of a Pipe", 1928
• I dream. Poem. Issahakjan, Avetik, In: Sinn und Form 1975, page 1019.
• 2 soul - driven around my bird. I see in a dream the night peaceful divorce ... Does my death one day ... That you lose what you loved ... home smoke. Issahakjan, Avetik, In: The flaming bush. Poetry from the Soviet Union. Selection and compilation of Wladimir Ognew 1987, p 32-35.