{{Short description|Armenian poet, teacher, and editor (1892–1915)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}

{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Armen Dorian | image = ArmenDorian.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = An amateur sketch of Armen Dorian | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1892|01|28}} | birth_place = Sinop in the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire | death_date = {{death-date and age|1915|28 January 1892}} | death_place = | spouse = | children = | relations = | occupation = Poet }}

'''Armen Dorian''' ({{langx|hy|Արմէն Տօրեան}}; 28 January 1892 &ndash; 1915) was a renowned Armenian poet, teacher, and editor who lived in the Ottoman Empire. He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He wrote poetry in French and Armenian. In 1915, Dorian was arrested and killed during the Armenian genocide at the age of 23.

==Life==

Armen Dorian was born Hrachia Surenian in Sinop in the Kastamonu Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire on 28 January 1892.<ref name=gocekhov>{{cite book|last=Gocek|first=Fatma Muge|title=Reconstructing the Turkish Historiography on the Armenian Massacres and Deaths of 1915|year=2003|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=1412827671|pages=209–10|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Is9CxfshuYsC|editor=Richard G. Hovannisian}}</ref><ref name=tuglaci>{{cite book|last=Tuğlacı|first=Pars|title=Ermeni edebiyatından seçkiler|date=1992|publisher=Cem Yayınevi|location=Istanbul|isbn=9754064016|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lSpkAAAAMAAJ|language=Turkish}}</ref><ref name=hranush>{{cite web|script-title=hy:Արմեն Տորյան|url=http://www.lib.mindiaspora.am/2649.html|publisher=Ministry of Diaspora of the Republic of Armenia|language=Armenian|access-date=23 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081230/http://www.lib.mindiaspora.am/2649.html|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Dorian moved to the capital Constantinople where he received his early education at the Pangaltı Mekhitarist Armenian School.<ref name=gocekhov /> After finishing his education, Dorian traveled to France in 1911 and continued his studies at the Sorbonne University in Paris.<ref name=hranush /><ref name=gocek>{{cite book|last=Göçek|first=Fatma Müge|title=The transformation of Turkey: redefining state and society from the Ottoman Empire to the modern era|date=2011|publisher=I.B. Tauris|location=London|isbn=978-1848856110|page=220|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUUbI_uoGsC}}</ref> He joined the French literary scene and founded the French newspaper ''L'Arène''.<ref name=hranush /><ref name=zarakolu>{{cite news|last=Zarakolu |first=Ragip |title=BASIN DA GEÇMİŞİNE SANSÜR UYGULUYOR |url=http://www.haberruzgari.com/Tarih/34812-BASIN-DA-gECMISINE-SANSUR-UYgULUYOR.html |newspaper=HaberRuzgari |language=Turkish |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019083943/http://www.haberruzgari.com/Tarih/34812-BASIN-DA-gECMISINE-SANSUR-UYgULUYOR.html |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref> In 1913, he and other prominent French poets founded the pantheist literary school.<ref name=gocekhov /><ref name=gocek /><ref name=zarakolu /> It was said of Dorian that "symbolists during that time in France had never seen a youth with such a fervent vigor with a majestic writing style that incorporated such beautiful dreams..."<ref name=hranush /> Immediately after his graduation from the Sorbonne in 1914, Dorian returned to Constantinople where he became a teacher and taught French and Armenian literature.<ref name=hranush /><ref name=teotik>{{cite book |last=Lapçinciyan |first=Teotoros |title=Houshartsun nahadoug mdavoraganouti|date=1919 |page=29|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rf90HAAACAAJ |language=Armenian}}</ref>

== Death ==

In the middle of the night, on 24 April 1915, Armen Dorian was arrested while teaching.<ref name=zarakolu /> The arrests were part of the Armenian genocide which sought to deport Armenian notables from the capital to the interior provinces of the Ottoman Empire.<ref>{{cite book|last=Berrett|first=Jacques Derogy; preface by Gérard Chaliand; translated by A.M.|title=Resistance and revenge: the Armenian assassination of the Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportations|date=1990|publisher=Transaction Publishers|location=New Brunswick, U.S.A.|isbn=0887383386|pages=12&ndash;3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpL9QKCJ2L8C}}</ref>

Armen Dorian was initially sent to Çankırı where he and other Armenian intellectuals were imprisoned.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kuyumjian|first=Rita Soulahian|title=Archeology of madness: Komitas, portrait of an Armenian icon|date=2010|publisher=Taderon Press (Gomidas Institute)|location=London|isbn=978-1903656211}}</ref><ref name=smith /> He was removed from prison and murdered en route to Ankara.<ref name=gocek /><ref name=zarakolu /><ref name=smith>{{cite journal|last=Smith|first=Walter George|title=Journal of a Journey to the Near East|journal=Armenian Review|year=1971|volume=24|issue=1|page=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Balakian|first=Grigoris|title=Armenian Golgotha : a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915&ndash;1918|date=2010|publisher=Vintage Books|location=New York|isbn=978-1400096770|page=69|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e3llu-RtIKwC|edition=1st Vintage Books|editor=Peter Balakian}}</ref> He was 23 years old.<ref name=gocek />

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== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092022/http://www.lib.mindiaspora.am/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/02-armen-toryan-1.pdf Poems by Armen Dorian (in Armenian)]

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