Hovhannes Bujicanian
Hovhannes Bujicanian (born, Çüngüs, 1873, - Harpoot, 1915) was an Armenian academic and teacher in the Ottoman Empire.[1] He was a defender of the Second Constitutional Order[2] within the Ottoman Empire and an influential functionary in the Euphrates College.[1]
Biography
[edit]Between 1906 and 1908 he attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied Psychology and Philosophy and got to know the possibilities within a democratic environment.[3] As following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908 the Ottoman Constitution was re-instated, the life for Armenians improved significantly which was also the case for the education according to the Armenian tradition and culture.[4] Eventually, he became a teacher of Ethics at the Euphrates College.[5] From November 1909 onwards he wrote for the Euphrates Colleges newspaper Yeṗrad (Euphrates in Armenian.[6] As a teacher at the Euphrates College, he welcomed the possibility to be able to celebrate the 1500th anniversary of the Armenian alphabet in 1913.[7] Following the defeat of the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sarikamis in January 1915, he was arrested on the 1 May 1915.[8] He was joined by Donabed Lulejian, another teacher of the Euphrates College in June of the same year and both were subjected to torture.[8] The two reportedly attempted to commit suicide but were not able to do so.[9][5] Bujicanian would be transferred to a prison in Elazığ and later killed as was trying to reach exile abroad.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.). World War I and the End of the Ottomans: From the Balkan Wars to the Armenian Genocide. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-78453-246-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), pp.214, 222
- ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), p.223
- ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), pp.214–215
- ^ a b Mouradian, Hagop Daniel (2018-12-16). Favet Neptunus Eunti: A History of the Mouradians from Their Founding to Modern Day. The Mouradian Foundation. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-5323-9002-9.
- ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), p.215
- ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), pp. 220–221
- ^ a b Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), pp.229–231
- ^ Atkinson, Tacy (2000). The German, the Turk and the Devil Made a Triple Alliance: Harpoot Diaries, 1908-1917. Gomidas Institute. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-903656-00-6.
- ^ Tachijan, Vahé (2015-09-28). Kieser, Hans-Lukas (ed.), p.232