Background
Kegham Parseghian was born in the Gedik Paşa district of Constantinople.
journalist literary critic writer poet
Kegham Parseghian was born in the Gedik Paşa district of Constantinople.
He attended to local Mesrobian school and continued his studies at the Getronagan Varjaran (Central Lyceum) until 1896.
After spending a year in Paris, he began to write his first literary pieces in many Armenian periodicals and newspaper of the time. He then became a chief columnist and editor of the Surhantag (Սուրհանդակ) and Azadamard (Ազատամարտ, 1909-1915) newspapers. He was one of the editors of the literary review Aztag (Ազդակ, 1908-1909).
On April 24, 1915, Parseghian was apprehended and taken to Ayaş near Ankara where he was killed.
He was one of the founding members of the short lived literary monthly Mehian (Մեհեան, 1914) and worked alongside famed writers such as Gostan Zarian, Daniel Varujan, Hagop Oshagan, Hrand Nazariantz and Aharon Dadurian.