Career
He was also the publication"s editors Shmavonyan born in 1750 in the Persian city Shiraz moved in 1784 to Madras (now Chennai), India where he served as an Armenian priest. In 1789, he founded a second Armenian publishing house.
In the October 1794 he founded the Armenian journal "Azdarar" (Armenian: Ազդարար).
Financing of the new publication had been secured, but the number of readers was not very large. Shmavonyan went on to publish 18 issues of "Azdarar" before it stopped in 1796.
Father Harutyun Shmavonyan died in 1824.