Rupen sevag wikipedia in english

Rupen Chilingiryan (Sevag) (Ռուբէն Յովհաննէսի Չիլինկիրեան (Սեւակ), February 28, , Silivri, Ottoman Empire – August 26, , Çankırı, Ottoman Empire) was an.

Two of the most gifted poets of their generation, Taniel Varoujan and Roupen Sevag, were almost the same age Varoujan was a year older , and were friends in life and in death. He belonged to a well-to-do family, and had two sisters and three brothers. He studied at the local Askanazian School and then went to the American lyceum of Bardizag from Then he entered the renowned Berberian School of Scutari, in Constantinople, which he graduated with highest grades in Reteos Berberian, a famous pedagogue and founding director of the school, noticed his interest in science.

He advised him to go to Switzerland and pursue a career in medicine. Thus, he entered the medical school of the University of Lausanne, where he studied for the next six years. They fell in love, but they had to overcome the resistance of both of their families. Finally, they married in Lausanne in , while the religious ceremony was held in the Armenian Church of Paris.

Sevag published prolifically in the period between in newspapers and literary journals of Constantinople and Smyrna, as well as in the publications of the Mekhitarist Fathers of Venice. During a vacation in Constantinople, he founded the short-lived newspaper Surhantag with a group of friends. He was also involved in political activities, and became a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

In he published his first book of poetry, The Red Book, where the echoes of the Adana massacres of were noticeable. He planned to gather many other lyrical and patriotic poems in three more books, but this would never happen. From Sevag worked as an assistant physici an at a hospital and a clinic in Lausanne. His poetry and prose made him well-known in Armenian literary circles.

He settled with his wife and their two-year old son Levon, in Constantinople in May