Levon Tigranyants

Levon Akobjani Tigranyan (1841, Yerevan, Georgia-Imereti Province, Russian Empire, February 16, 1906; Yerevan, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire, February 16, 1906) was an Armenian doctor and public figure.

Education

He received his primary education at his birthplace. He continued his studies in Tiflis from 1859 in Petersburg (in the private boarding house of K. Yezian, then in the medical and surgical academy). In 1875, he graduated from the medical faculty of Dorpat University. During the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878, he voluntarily went to the Caucasian front, fought against the typhus epidemic spreading in the Russian army, and was the provincial doctor of Erzurum.

Work

In 1879, he was demobilized and appointed the city doctor of Yerevan. In 1880, he became the chairman of the "Permanent Health Commission," engaged in the improvement of the sanitary and hygienic condition of the city. In the years 1881–1884, he published "Aoghjapahakan newspaper" in Yerevan. the monthly magazine. With the efforts of Tigranyan, the water from 40 springs in Bash Aparan was brought to Yerevan, and a hospital was opened in 1890. Tigranyan participated in the Armenian national-liberation movement and was one of the founders of the "Hayaser-Azgaser" organization established in Yerevan in 1881, the main goal of which was to organize a simultaneous uprising in two parts of Armenia and thereby create an independent Armenia.

Work activity

He established contacts with Karin's "Defender of the Homeland," the secret liberation organizations of Moscow and Tiflis, as well as K. With the patriots of Istanbul, Van, and other cities in western Armenia, In 1881, he was sent to Iran to fight against the plague epidemic, and, taking advantage of the opportunity, he passed through Salmast to Van and negotiated with the local Russian vice consul Kamsarakan about the problems of the Armenian liberation movement. Heading the Yerevan branch of the Armenian Charity Society of the Caucasus, he organized fundraisers and various events, the proceeds of which were allocated to the purchase of weapons and their transportation to western Armenia. In 1883, the tsarist authorities exiled Tigranyan to Dorpat for three years on charges of national liberation activities. From there, from where he went to Germany and France and practiced medicine for some time. After returning to his homeland, he was elected mayor of Yerevan in 1894, but not coming to terms with the tyranny of the tsarist authorities, he resigned from that position after 8 months.  

Tigranyan's ideas

For the first time in the history of Armenian medicine, Tigranyan put forward the idea of preventive medicine, linking the issue of public health care with the necessary socio-economic prerequisites. Through his efforts, physical education was introduced in Yerevan schools. Tigranyan's manual "Humanity" (1881) was used in Yerevan schools for a long time. "Children's Garden..." is dedicated to pedagogic issues. (1897) work. He compiled Armenian medical dictionaries, translated, and published a number of dictionaries. Tigranyan's memoirs, written in 1898 ("My Memoir,"  untyped), contain valuable materials about the Armenian national-liberation movement of the last quarter of the 19th century, other events of the period, and prominent public politicians (Mikael Nalbandyan, K. Yezian, M. Sanasaryan, M. Loris-Melikov, and K. Kamsarakan).