Nikol Aghbalian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nikol Aghbalian

historian

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-1875

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1947

Profession: politician, public figure, literary, literary scholar

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian (Armenian: ????? ?????? ????????; 1875, Tiflis - 1947, Beirut) was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature, the editor of Horizon paper. Aghbalian was born in 1873 in Tbilisi.
His primary education was in Tbilisi's Nersisyan school, followed by a seminary education.
He studied at Moscow State University, then in Lausanne and Sorbonne, worked as a teacher in Agulis, Shusha and Tiflis, and headed the Armenian National college in Iran.
In 1914 he returned to Russian Armenia and participated in the National Bureau, working with the survivors of Armenian Genocide.
In 1918-1920 he was a member of Parliament, and in 1919-1920 was appointed Minister of Education and Culture of the First Republic of Armenia. Agbalian worked at the "Hammer", "Horizon", "Balcony", "Journal Amsorya" and other periodicals.
After the establishment of Soviet power in 1921, Aghbalian was imprisoned and subsequently emigrated to Lebanon, where he directed the Nshan Palanjian seminarium in Beirut.
Aghbalyan died in 1947 in Beirut.
Since 1991 there has been a "Nikol Abghalyan" student union.
Aghbalyan secondary school No.
19 is named after him.