Shahan Natalie
| Shahan Natalie | |
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| Born |
Hagop Der Hagopian July 14, 1884 Huseinig, Kharpert Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | April 19, 1983 (aged 98) Watertown, Massachusetts, USA |
| Resting place | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Other names | John Mahy |
| Notable work | The Turks and Us (1928) |
| Political party | Armenian Revolutionary Federation |
Shahan Natalie (Armenian: Շահան Նաթալի; July 14, 1884–April 19, 1983) was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the principal organizer of Operation Nemesis, a campaign of revenge against officials of the former Ottoman Empire who instigated the Armenian Genocide during World War I. He later became a writer on Armenian national philosophy, and notable for his essay, The Turks and Us.
Shahan Natalie was born Hagop Der Hagopian on July 14, 1884, in the village of Huseinig, in the Kharberd province (modern day Elazığ Province) of the Ottoman Empire. He was the only son of a seven-member family, along with four sisters.
He received his primary education in the local Armenian school. His father, maternal uncle, and numerous other relatives were killed at the beginning of the 1895 Hamidian massacres. Separated from his family, Hagop, then 11, was taken in by a neighboring Greek family, who hid him for three days. He was later reunited with the surviving members of his family. He found his mother mourning over his father's lifeless body, which they dragged together and buried under a walnut tree. The scene of his mother, prostrate on her husband's body, left a deep and indelible impression on the young boy.
He studied for a year at the Euphrates College in Kharberd. Along with other orphans, he was then sent to the St. James Orphanage in Constantinople, where a wealthy Armenian rug merchant living in New York City sponsored him. The following year he was admitted to the famed Berberian Academy, where he studied until 1900.
In 1901, he returned to his native Huseinig, where for three years he was a teacher at the Armenian parochial school of the St. Varvara Church. In the meantime, he studied the provincial dialect of Kharberd, earning him special honor in Patriarch Matthew II Izmirlian's literary competition.
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