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16 august 1915 -lrb- aged 42 -rrb- izmit , ottoman turkey rodosto , ottoman turkey 220px 1873 ardashes_harutiunian . jpg ardashes harutiunian
 ardashes harutiunian Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան writer and public activist . , poet , literary critic , translator ,
ardashes harutiunian

ardashes harutiunian -lrb- Արտաշէս Յարութիւնեան , also used pen-names `` manishak , ban , shahen-garo and garo '' , 1873 , malkara , near rodosto , ottoman empire - 16 august 1915 -rrb- was an ottoman armenian poet , a self-educated translator from french and literary critic , who became one of the most outstanding intellectuals of his period .
since 1912 he lived in İstanbul , where he worked as a teacher and contributed to western armenian newspapers .
he published his first book of poems , '' Լքուած քնար '' -lrb- abandoned lyre -rrb- , in 1902 , followed by two new volumes , '' Երկունք '' -lrb- birth -rrb- and '' Նոր քնար '' -lrb- new lyre -rrb- , in 1906 and 1912 , respectively .
he was one of the first literary critics of contemporary armenian poets like misak medzarents , daniel varujan and siamanto .
during the armenian genocide , he stayed in Üsküdar on 24 april 1915 .
he was then arrested on 28 july 1915 and severely beaten at the müdüriyet .
when his father came to see him he was imprisoned as well .
father and son were both deported together with 26 armenians to nicomedia -lrb- modern İzmit -rrb- and jailed in the armenian church that was converted into a prison .
they were both stabbed to death together with his father near derbent on 16 august 1915 .
after harutiunian 's death his poems were published in separate books in paris -lrb- 1937 -rrb- and yerevan -lrb- 1968 -rrb- .
the main topics of his poetry are love , romantics and humanism -lrb- `` the tramp in the night '' , `` dawn '' , `` windows '' -rrb- .
