Grigor Artsruni

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Grigor Eremiayi Artsruni (1845, Moscow - 1892, Tiflis) was an Armenian journalist, writer and public activist, Doctor of Political Economy and Philosophy (degreed by Heidelberg University in 1869).

He studied at Moscow and Saint-Petersburg universities, studied Armenian at Mekhitarists centers in Europe. In 1872 he established and edited "Mshak" Armenian paper, the basis of Armenian liberalism. Artsruni marked the necessity of development of capitalism in Armenia, supported the idea of armed resistance as a solution for the Armenian question.

[edit] Works

• The Eastern question, Tiflis, 1876 (in Russian).

[edit] Sources

• Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 383.
• Armenia: The Survival of a Nation