From 1926 to 1945, he was professor of Armenian Studies in Berlin and wrote prolifically in German on Armenology.[3] His chair was part of the Institute of Oriental Languages ("Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen") founded by order ofOtto von Bismarck, renamed to "College Foreign Countries" ("Auslandshochschule") in 1936 and merged with theGerman Academy for Politics in 1940.[4] DuringWorld War II, Abeghyan headed theArmenischen Nationalen Gremiums (Armenian National Council) in Berlin, a collaborationist body created by Nazi Germany.[5] He also wrote for the ANG's newspaper titledAzat Hayastan ("Free Armenia").[2] His home was destroyed by theAllied bombing of Berlin, after which he fled toStuttgart.[2] He settled inMunich in 1951, where he taught Armenian Studies at theUniversity of Munich until his death in 1955.[2]
^Koutcharian, Gerayer (2005). "Armenistik in Deutschland. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart" [Armenology in Germany. Past and Present]. In: Drost-Abgarjan, Armenuhi; Goltz, Hermann (eds.).Armenologie in Deutschland: Beiträge zum Ersten Deutschen Armenologen-Tag. Studien zur orientalischen Kirchengeschichte, vol. 35. Münster: Lit,ISBN3-8258-8610-7, pp. 233–238, here p. 234.
