Stepan Sapah-Gulian
Stepan Sapah-Gulian | |
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Born | Stepanos Ter-Danielian February 14, 1861 Nakhichevan, Russian Empire |
Died | April 28, 1928 New Jersey, United States | (aged 67)
Resting place | Union City, New Jersey |
Nationality | Armenian |
Alma mater | École Libre des Sciences Politiques |
Occupation | political scientist |
Notable work | "Young Turkey", "Responsables" |
Political party | Social Democrat Hunchakian Party |
Stepan Sapah-Gulian (Armenian: Ստեփան Սապահ Գիւլեան, 1861 – 1928) was a prominent Armenian journalist, political scientist, intellectual and a leader of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party.
Biography
Sapah-Gulian met with renowned Hunchakian activist
As an ardent activist for the Armenian cause, Sapah-Gulian joined the Hunchakian in 1894. He became a leader of the party and founded and/or edited several journals, including Yeritasard Hayastan ('Young Armenia', 1903), Hunchak, Veradsnound ('Revival'), and Nor Ashkharh ('New World').
After the restoration of the Ottoman Constitution (1908), along with the party, he declared his opposition to the
While in Cairo, Sapah-Gulian was condemned to death (in absentia) along with other Hunchakian party members by the Ottoman government in 1915. He later traveled to the United States to recruit volunteers for the volunteer units and to obtain assistance for the Armenians in the war. In the United States he edited the weekly Yeritasard Hayastan in Providence and fundamentally disagreed on the issue of the dissolution of the Social Democrat Hunchakian Party in favor of the Russian Social Democrats in 1923, showing determination to maintain independence and integrity of the Armenian Social Democrat Hunchak party.
The problem of a nation's survival is more important than problems between classes: all classes must work together for survival, realizing their obligations in material, moral, physical spheres
— S. Sapah-Gulian, "The Responsables", p. 65
Stepan Sapah-Gulian died in New Jersey on April 28, 1928.
Books
- «Փոքր Հայքի յիշատակներ» (Memoirs of Armenia Minor) (1917). Author's memoirs of three trips into historic Armenian territory in 1911-1912 as a representative of the Armenian Hunchakian Party.
- «Պատասխանատուները» (The Responsibles) (4 editions published between 1916 and 1974 in Armenian, reprinted in 1991), 384 p.[2]
- «Սոցիալիզմ եւ հայրենիք» (Socialism and Homeland) (1916)
- «Բառերի եւ եզրերի բացատրութիւններ» (Explanation of Words and Terms) (1927)
- «Երիտասարդ Թուրքիա» (Young Turkey) (1911). Criticism of the Young Turks and their Ottoman ideology.
- «Արմենակ եւ Աբրահամ» (Armenak and Abraham) (1917), publication of Yeritasard Hayastan, Chicago, 22 p.
- «Եւրոպայի քաղաքական դրութիւնը Բերլինի դաշնադրութիւնից յետոյ» (The Political Situation of Europe after the Treaty of Berlin (1898)
References
- ^ Preparation for a Revolution : The Young Turks, 1902-1908: Near Eastern Studies Department Princeton University, Oxford University Press, 2001, p. 207
- ^ Bibliography by Haigazian Univ.
Addition sources
- The Armenian Question, encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, pp. 400–401.
- Biography at Massis Weekly