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Nikol Aghbalian | |
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 Nikol Aghbalian portrait | |
| Born | 1875 |
| Died | 1947 (aged 71–72) |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Alma mater | Moscow State UniversityLausanneSorbonne |
| Occupation(s) | public figure and historian ofliterature |
| Known for | editor ofHorizon paper. |
Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian (Armenian:Նիկոլ Պողոսի Աղբալյան; 1875,Tiflis – 1947,Beirut) was anArmenian public figure and historian ofliterature, the editor ofHorizon paper.
Aghbalian was born in 1873 in Tbilisi. His primary education was in Tbilisi's Nersisyan school, followed by a seminary education. He studied atMoscow State University, then inLausanne andSorbonne, worked as a teacher inAgulis,Shusha andTiflis, and headed the Armenian National college inIran. In 1914 he returned toRussian Armenia and participated in the National Bureau, working with the survivors ofArmenian genocide. In 1918-1920 he was a member of Parliament, and in 1919-1920 was appointed Minister of Education and Culture of theFirst Republic of Armenia.
Armenian-American historianRichard G. Hovannisian describes Nikol Aghbalian in the second volume ofThe Republic of Armenia:[1]
… Nikol Aghbalian was a gregarious intellectual and pedagogue whose restless disposition led him in many directions, including literary criticism, linguistics, and revolutionary journalism. Enthralled with the cultural vivacity of his people, Aghbalian, who had directed schools inEgypt,Persia, and various localities in Transcaucasia, took hold of the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Culture with passionate enthusiasm.
Agbalian worked at theHammer,Horizon,Balcony,Journal Amsorya and other periodicals. After the establishment of Soviet power in 1921, Aghbalian was imprisoned and subsequently emigrated to Egypt where he misspent the money of the Armenian Community and organised in 1928 the failed assassination of the chief of the community who had held him accountable - assaulting a prelate in the process who had come to his rescue. [Topouzian, H. Kh. Padmutyun Ekiptosi Hayots Karouti (1805-1952) [History of the Armenian Community of Egypt]. Academy of Sciences of SSR Armenia (1978): 258-259]. He was imprisoned with his accomplices in 1933 [Condamnation announced in AREV on 04.09.1933] and thereafter banished from Egypt. He then migrated toLebanon, where he directed the Nshan Palanjian seminarium inBeirut. A soon as 1930 he published his credo overruling the rule of law of any country with his party's constitution and explaining his mode of action and crime in Egypt: 'If yesterday you were a simple soldier or squad leader, and today you become a government minister, you do not cease being a Dashnaktsakan who is subject to the [ARF’s] Constitution and Bylaws. And if Dashnaktsoutiun notices that in your new position you are attempting to think and work as a non-Dashnaktsakan, it will mercilessly unseat you, without regard to your fame or your position' ["Mtatzumner [Thoughts]” in DROSHAK 1929–30][1].
Aghbalian died in 1947 in Beirut. Since 1991 there has been a "Nikol Abghalian" student union. Aghbalian secondary school No. 19 is named after him.
"Banaseri Memorandum" (1937–38)"Grakam critical Works" (1959)
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