Nazaret Daghavarian was an Armenia

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n doctor, agronomist and public activist, one of the founders of Armenian General Benevolent Union

Armenian General Benevolent Union

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 (AGBU).

He studied in the colleges of Istanbul

Istanbul

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, then finished the university of Paris

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. He was the chief director of the Armenian schools of Sebastia province, then directed the Aramian school and St Savior hospital in Constantinople. Being arrested by the Turkish authorities, he was released after the mediaton of the French embassy and in 1905 he moved to Cairo

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, where he worked as a doctor and teacher and participated in the foundation of the AGBU charity organization. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he returned to Istanbul

Istanbul

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 and was elected as a member of the Ottoman parliament and Armenian National Central Committee. On April 24, 1915 he was arrested in Istanbul

Istanbul

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and was killed at the way to deportation.

Daghavarian is an author of scientific works on medicine, religion and history.

Sources

• The Doctors who became Victims of the Great Calamity, G. Karoyan, Boston, 1957
• "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 439