Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian (Aghbalyan, 1875, Tiflis - 1947, Beirut

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) was an Armenia

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n public figure and historian of literature

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, the editor of "Horizon" paper.
He studied at Moscow State University

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, then in Lausanne

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 and Sorbonne

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, worked as a teacher in Agulis, Shusha

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 and Tiflis, headed the Armenian National college in Iran

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. In 1914 he returned to Russian Armenia

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 and participated in National Bureau, worked with the survivors of Armenian Genocide

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. In 1918 he became a member of Armenian parliament, in 1919-1920 he was the Minister of Education and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Armenia

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.

Then Aghbalyan moved to Lebanon

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, directed Nshan Palanjian seminarium in Beirut

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Sources

• The Armenian People from Ancient to Modern Times, by Richard G. Hovannisian, 1997, p. 329
• Lazian K., Demker hai azadakragan sharjoumen, Cairo, 1949, pp. 265–284.
• Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan
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  , 1990, Vol. 1, p. 130.