Native Name: | Gegham Ter-Karapetian |
Other Names: | Msho Gegham |
Birth Date: | 1865 |
Birth Place: | village of Kheybian, Bitlis Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Death Date: | November 28, |
Death Place: | Constantinople |
Occupation: | writer and politician |
Gegham Ter-Karapetian (Armenian: Գեղամ Տեր-Կարապետեան) (1865-1918), better known by his pen name Msho Gegham (Մշոյ Գեղամ), was a writer and politician in the Ottoman Empire. He was ethnically Armenian.
Ter-Karapetian was born in 1865 in the village of Kheybian in Bitlis Vilayet, Ottoman Empire.[1]
He was a major writer of Western Armenian provincial literature.[2] [3] He was also a respected journalist and statesman.[4]
Ter-Karapetian served as a deputy in the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies from the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.[1]