Women and the Transfer of Knowledge in the Black Sea Region
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Margarit was a copier and painter. The virgin Eghisabet Sargsian was her teacher in Shushi. Once during her visit to Tatev monastery she wished to see a Gospel, but she was refused, because due to church rules women had no right to touch the sacredness.
Nektar was a public figure. She was born in Constantinople and married Astvatsatur Jund, a famous merchant and intellectual figure, who received the title of cavalier from the emperor of Austria Francis Joseph I. Nektar was one of the founders of “Patriotic Armenian women (Azganuēr
Abbess Nshan Galfaian (1822-1889) is a public figure. She was born in Constantinople in the family of artisan. When she was 12 years old, her mother tried to make her marry, but Nshan opposed. At the age of 18 she put on virgin’s dress, which
Brabion was a teacher. She was born in Constantinople, she was of unique educated women of her time, she was known as the first Armenian woman teacher. She always assisted her brother Matt‛os Palatetsi (of Balad), who was a famous intellectual figure. The brother and
The first schools for girls in the Armenian reality are the Hripsimiantz school of Smyrna (Hṛip’simyeants’ varzharan, 1840), Yerevan’s Hripsimiantz school (Hṛip’simyants’ dprots’, 1850), but these schools began to multiply from the middle of the 19th century. The Armenian writer Perch Proshyan was especially noteworthy
Gayane was born in Tbilisi in 1852. At age of 18 she engaged in translation acivities, translating both from French and from Russian. She has worked as a surveyor at the Mariamian Girl’s School. Gayane studied pedagogy in Switzerland. Returning to the Caucasus, she dedicates
Mariam Khatisyan (1845-1914) was born in Tbilisi, she studied at the Tbilisi Women’s Institute. Mariam organized a special literary salon at her home, where the Armenian intellectuals of Tbilisi were gathering. She studied Armenian in that environment and engaged in cultural activities. Mariam Khatisyan was
German researcher August Hacksthausen, who was in Armenia in the first half of the 19th century, writes that Armenian women have equal rights as compared to other Asian peoples around the world. Young women are free to get married for love, not by force, as
The first periodicals in Armenian reality specially targeting women were Haverjahas (1862) and Guitar (published in Constantinople from 1862-1863) journals. Haverjahas anounced that it was going to publish materials of special interest to Armenian young ladies and women presenting Paris’ fashion and publishing love novels
The start of organized public activist of Armenian women is considered 1847 during which women from Khasgyugh from the Ottoman Empire came together and founded an association. No information on this organization is preserved, but it is known that the main goal of it was