Taniel varoujan biography
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Taniel varoujan biography
Daniel Varoujan
Armenian poet
Daniel Varoujan[A] (Armenian: Դանիէլ Վարուժան, 20 April 1884 – 26 August 1915) was an Armenian poet of the early 20th century.
At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk government, as part of the officially planned and executed Armenian genocide.[5][6]
Life and education
Varoujan was born Daniel Tchboukkiarian (Դանիէլ Չպուքքեարեան)[7] in the village of Prknig (now called Çayboyu[8]) near the town of Sivas in Turkey.
After attending the local school, he was sent in 1896, the year of the Hamidian massacres, to Istanbul, where he attended the Mkhitarian school. He then continued his education at the Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael in Venice, and in 1905 entered Ghent University in Belgium, where he followed courses in literature, sociology and economics.
In 1909 he returned to his village where he taught for three