YSU hosts conference on Daniel Varuzhan's 125th birthday anniversary

November 11, 2009 - 19:54 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The 125th birthday anniversary of outstanding Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan was marked in Yerevan State University on November 11. A number of events dedicated to the occasion are also planned throughout Armenia and abroad. 



Scientific materials will be published by the end of the year.



Daniel Varuzhan was born in Brgnik (a village in Sebastia) in 1884. From 1896 to 1902 he attended the school of Mkhitarist fathers. He pursued his higher education at University of Ghent, Belgium, where he studied economics and social sciences. Then he returned to his native village and taught Armenian in a school. Varuzhan was among the intellectuals arrested by the Turkish police on the night of April 24, 1915. He was deported to Cankiri and murdered.
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