Grigor Eremiayi Artsruni (also spelled as Krikor Ardzruni) (in Armenian: Գրիգոր Արծրունի) (27 February 1845, Moscow

Moscow

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 - 19 December 1892, Tiflis) was an Armenia

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n journalist, critic, writer and public activist, Doctor of Political Economy and Philosophy (degreed by Heidelberg University in 1869). Since 1872 he had been publishing the "Mshak" magazine being its editor and manager until his death.

He studied at Moscow

Moscow

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 and Saint-Petersburg universities, studied Armenian at Mekhitarists centers in Europe

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. In 1872 he established and edited "Mshak" (Մշակ/Cultivator), the basis of Armenian liberalism

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. He had been its editor and manager until his death. Artsruni marked the necessity of development of capitalism

Capitalism

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 in Armenia

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, supported the idea of armed resistance as a solution for the Armenian question

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. Artsruni was a mentor to the Armenian writer Raffi (1835–1888).

Works

• The economic situation of the Armenians in Turkey, (Original: Թիւրքաց հայերի տնտեսական դրութիւնը դասախօսութիւն)
• Էվէլինա Հոգեբանական Էտիւդ (Հայերէն Մի Անտիպ Ձեռագրից), publishing house Տէրտէրեան Ղուկաս Վրդ., Tiflis 1891
• The Eastern question, Tiflis, 1876 (in Russian).

Sources

• Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan
  Yerevan
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  , 1990, Vol. 1, p. 383.
• Armenia: The Survival of a Nation