Avetik Isahakyan
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Avetik Isahakyan 🇦🇲

Ավետիք Իսահակյան (Known as "Isahakyan")
Master Lyric Poet, Novelist, Academician, President of the Writers' Union of Armenia
Born 1875-10-31 🇦🇲 Ghazarapat, Alexandropol (Gyumri), Armenia
Passed Away 1957-10-17 Yerevan, Armenia
Lifespan 81 years old
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"Freedom is the highest breath of humanity; without it, glory is but empty ash."

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Master lyric poet and academician whose philosophical epic 'Abul Ala Al-Ma'arri' and melancholic folk verses captured the eternal longing and sorrows of the Armenian people.

Biographical Record

Avetik Isahakyan was born on October 31, 1875, near Alexandropol (Gyumri). Educated at the Gevorkian Seminary and the University of Leipzig, Isahakyan was arrested repeatedly by Tsarist authorities for his active involvement in the Armenian national liberation movement.

His 1909 philosophical masterpiece, Abul Ala Al-Ma'arri, inspired by the blind medieval Arab poet, channeled existential yearning for freedom and cosmic justice. After living abroad in Switzerland, France, and Italy for decades, he returned triumphantly to Soviet Armenia in 1936, serving as President of the Writers' Union until his death and revered as the living conscience of the nation.

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Komitas Pantheon
Yerevan, Armenia
GPS: 40.1562, 44.5028
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