Nikol Aghbalyan, founder of the State Theater, University and Library

Nikol Aghbalyan is one of the most prominent Armenian literary critics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a statesman, teacher, and intellectual. A graduate of the Gevorgyan Seminary, he was the only theorist of the Vernatun literary organization and had a huge influence on the Armenian literary process of the time. It was Nikol Aghbalyan who was the first to proclaim the emergence of a new Armenian genius, Yeghishe Charnetsi. The Armenian people are indebted to Nikol Aghbalyan, the Minister of Enlightenment of the First Republic of Armenia, for the establishment of the first state university, the National Library, and the first state theater.

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