page_title: Ruben Sevak
section_title: Biography
hierarchical_section_title: Ruben Sevak / Biography
caption_attribution_description: Հայերեն: Ռուբեն Սևակը 2011 թվականի հայկական նամականիշի վրա English: Ruben Sevak on a 2011 Armenian stamp
context_page_description: Rupen Çilingiryan was an Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor.
context_section_description: Rupen Sevak received his elementary education in his birthplace at the Askanazian school. He then moved to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and studied at the prestigious Berberian School. He graduated in 1905 and went to Lausanne, Switzerland, to pursue studies at the medical school. He met there his future wife, Helene Apell. After graduating in 1911, he decided to go back to Constantinople in 1914 with his family. This decision would cost him his life. He was arrested on at the onset of the Armenian Genocide on April 24, 1915 and killed on August 26, 1915.
caption: Ruben Sevak featured on a 2011 Armenian Stamp
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