Yervant Aghaton

Yervant Aghaton (1860 to 1935) was a prominent Armenian political figure, agronomist, publisher and writer, and one of the founding members of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. He was the son of Krikor Aghaton and was born in Constantinople, in the district of Haskoy. He studied at the Nersisyan primary school, the Nubar-Shahnazaryan colleges and Robert College, and in 1877 he was sent to Paris to study at the Grignon agricultural college. After the Hamidian Massacres he fled Turkey, continued his university education in Paris and later lived in Bulgaria and Egypt. In the 1920s he wrote several books, including Hayastani Verashinutyune (Rebuilding Armenia, 1924), and in 1931 he published his memoirs.