Firudin bey Kocharli

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Firidun bey Kocharli (1863-1920) was a prominent Azerbaijani writer and educator.

Kocharly was born in 1863 in Shusha. He was one of the first members of the national intelligentsia to begin struggle for the clarity of the Azeri literary language. He is the author of a seminal three-volume work "The Literature of the Azeri Turks" (1908). This work gave information about 130 Azeri writers and was a significant work of its kind about the Azerbaijani literature at that time.

Kocharli was killed in spring 1920, during the Soviet invasion of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (1918-1920). During the political turmoil he was arrested by the Armenian dashnaks (members of the nationalist Armenian Revolutionary Federation) pretending to be Bolsheviks, and killed without trial^{[citation needed]}.