Teotig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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writer
Date of Birth: 05-Mar-1873
Place of Birth: Üsküdar, Turkey
Date of Death: 24-May-1928
Profession: writer, philologist
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Teotig
- Teotoros "Teotig" Labdjindjian (Armenian: ???????? "??????" ??????????, 1873; Üsküdar, Constantinople (Istanbul), Ottoman Empire – 1928; Paris, France) was an Armenian writer and publisher best known for his Armenian language almanac, Amenun Daretsuytsi (in Armenian ??????? ????????? meaning "Everyone’s Almanac").
- It was published annually, mostly in Constantinople, between 1907 and 1929.Teotig was born in 1873 to Armenian parents in Üsküdar, a district of Constantinople situated on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus.
- He married writer Arsaguhi Cezveciyan in 1902.
- Aside from his yearly Almanac production, Teotig was also known for his "Golgotha of the Armenian Clergy", a compilation of sources analyzing the priests, clergymen, and monks who were massacred during the Armenian genocide.
- He ended up compiling and documenting 1252 witnesses to the massacres of the clergy.
- Teotig was assisted in his enterprise by his British-educated wife, Arshaguhi Teotig (1875-1921)—herself a writer and educator—until her untimely death. Teotig himself was deported during the Armenian Genocide and managed to survive.
- After returning to Constantinople in 1922, he fled to Europe on the eve of its occupation by the army of Mustafa Kemal.
- He then lived a wandering life for the next six years, living in Corfu, Nicosia, and Paris, with the last of his yearbooks being printed in Venice, Vienna, and Paris.
- He died in May 1928 in Paris, when the 18th volume of his yearbooks (his "paper children", as he called them) was in press.
- His son Vahakn Teotig died in the United States sometime in the 1960s.
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