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Bedros Tourian

1851 - 1872

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Bedros Tourian (also spelled Petros Duryan, Turian, Armenian: Պետրոս Դուրեան; 1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1851 – 2 February [O.S. January 21] 1872) was an Armenian poet, playwright and actor. His career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty, but he gained lasting renown for his highly personal and innovative lyric poetry. Tourian was born into a poor family in Scutari near Constantinople. He showed interest in theater and began translating plays from French to Armenian while still in school. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bedros Tourian is the 4,863rd most popular writer (down from 4,853rd in 2019), the 1,120th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 1,126th in 2019) and the 129th most popular Turkish Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Bedros Tourian ranks 4,863 out of 7,302Before him are Franciszek Karpiński, Akram Aylisli, Ronald Knox, František Čelakovský, Hanif Kureishi, and José Eustasio Rivera. After him are Terenci Moix, Henrik Nordbrandt, Gabriel Aresti, Wolfgang Koeppen, Raymond Abellio, and Clare Hollingworth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1851, Bedros Tourian ranks 85Before him are Arnold Pick, Gérard Leman, Ekaterine Gabashvili, Nikolai Iudovich Ivanov, Carl Gustav Axel Harnack, and Carl Locher. After him are Spyridon Lambros, Andrea Costa, Spiru Haret, Thérèse Schwartze, Friedrich von Scholtz, and Abraham Berge. Among people deceased in 1872, Bedros Tourian ranks 61Before him are Hugo von Mohl, Andrej Sládkovič, William Davies Evans, Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, Benjamin Briggs, and Nikolaos Mantzaros. After him are Frederik Kaiser, John Frederick Kensett, Nikolay Milyutin, Robert Wight, Richard S. Ewell, and Charles Combes.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Bedros Tourian ranks 1,120 out of 1,347Before him are Nihat Kahveci (1979), Dilhan Eryurt (1926), Gaius Julius Quadratus Bassus (70), Andon Bedros IX Hassoun (1809), Selahattin Demirtaş (1973), and Simeon the Holy Fool (522). After him are Flavian I of Antioch (320), Zeki Rıza Sporel (1898), Muharrem İnce (1964), Naci Erdem (1931), Bülent Eken (1923), and Ferit Melen (1906).

Among WRITERS In Türkiye

Among writers born in Türkiye, Bedros Tourian ranks 129Before him are Ahmet Altan (1950), Ayşe Kulin (1941), Attilâ İlhan (1925), Musa Anter (1920), Levon Shant (1869), and Uğur Mumcu (1942). After him are Turan Dursun (1934), Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (1852), Duygu Asena (1946), Osman Nuri Topbaş (1942), Oğuz Atay (1934), and Ahmet Mithat (1844).