Smbat Byurat

Smbat Byurat ("Der-Ghazarian", 1862, Zeitun - 1915, Ankara) was an Armenian intellectual, writer and public activist.

Byurat was born in Süleymanlı/Zeitun, attended and graduated from the "Jarankavorats" school in Jerusalem. In 1880 he began studying at Sorbonne University. In 1885 he became the common revisor of the 36 Armenian schools of Cilicia. During this period he published his first poems in Yeghia Demirjibashian's philosophical journal "Yergrakount" ("Earth").

Being a political activist, he was arrested along with his wife (who became blind in Turkish prison) and spent 5 years in prison, in Marash and Aleppo.

In 1895 he was released and moved to Cairo, where he founded the Armenian Central College and "Nor Or" newspaper. After the Young Turk Revolution, he returned to Turkey, where he edited the "Pyunik" and "Gaghapar" newspapers and collaborated with Ottoman Turkish newspapers. He also wrote a large number of works (from "Yeldiz to Sassoun", 1910; "The Eagle of Avarair", 1909; "For the Freedom", 1911; etc.) and opened a publishing house. He was elected as a national deputy.

Byurat was arrested on April 24, 1915, along with other Armenian intellectuals, imprisoned in Ayaş, and finally killed in Ankara.

ource

Dr. Y. Jerjian, Martyrs on Bloody Path, pp. 156-157

See also

*Armenian notables deported from the Ottoman capital in 1915

Link

* [http://www.xodium.com/bcf/smbat.php Byurat's biography]