Location: Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Armenian
Photo taken by: Armineaghayan
Armenian poet, linguist, translator and educator. He was a key contributor to the Ashkharabar (Modern Armenian) literature movement and a promoter of literacy in Armenia. He has been called the founder of Classic Armenian poetry.
Hovhannisyan had his first poem, Spring / Աղբյուր published in 1883. His subjects included love and nature, as well as tragedy and the hard life of Armenia's peasantry. He published three volumes of his works in 1887, 1908 and 1912.
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