Time in Yerevan: 11:07,   19 March 2024

Zareh Khrakhouni passed away

Zareh Khrakhouni passed away

YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 30, ARMENPRESS. One of the original figures of Armenian poetry Zareh Khrakhouni died at the age of 89 in Istanbul. The department of Writers' Union of Armenia informed “Armenpress” about the aforementioned.

Zareh Khrakhouni (Artin Cumbusyan pronounced Jumbushian) was born October 16, 1926, in Istanbul. After completing high school at the Mekhitarist Fathers' College in 1945, he first completed a year of law school at the University of Istanbul, but then continued in the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the same institution. In 1951, he received his Master's degree in philosophy, psychology and sociology, having studied with professors Ludwig Schwarz, Ernst von Aster, Walther Kranz, Wilhelm Peters, Heinz Heimsoeth, and a number of Turkish professors who were disciples of Nikolai Hartmann and Hans Reichenbach. He later continued his studies in Paris in both literature and art history. Among his 26 volumes of literature there are 16 volumes of poetry, a collection of prose essays and translations, a play, and eight volumes of translations in English, French, German, Russian, Georgian, and Eastern Armenian. 








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