Satenik Matinian-Arghutian

Satenik Matinian-Arghutian
Born24 or 25 September 1874
Died12 December 1930 (aged 56)
Paris, France
Occupation(s)teacher and revolutionary leader in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement
OrganizationTabriz Armenian Women's Benevolent Society
SpouseHovsep Arghutian (m. 1899)
Children1

Satenik Matinian-Arghutian (Armenian: Սաթենիկ Մատինեան-Արղութեան, 24 or 25 September 1874 – 12 December 1930), also known as Dzaghig or Miss Flower, was an Armenian teacher and leader in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement.

Biography

Matinian-Arghutian was born on 24 or 25 September 1874[1] in Gyumri, Shirak, Armenia. She attended the first female gymnasium in Tbilisi.[1][2]

Matinian-Arghutian became involved in the Armenian revolutionary movement as a teenager as an active member of the group "Young Armenia."[1][3] She worked as a teacher in Tiflis.[4]

In 1892, Matinian-Arghutian moved from the Caucasus to Tabriz,[2] where she continued her teaching and revolutionary work.[4] She was an early member of organisations which later became the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF)[5] and was the leader of the Tabriz Armenian Women's Benevolent Society.[6][7] She was one of the more active revolutionaries and was well respected by other activists,[8] encouraging local Armeninan men to allow their wives to join women's revolutionary organisations.[9] Her sister Natalia Matinian was also involved in the revolutionary movement, undertaking secret assignments.[2][3]

Matinian-Arghutian married fellow Armenian revolutionary Hovsep Arghutian in 1899 in Moscow.[1] He became ambassador of the First Republic of Armenia to Persia.[9] They had one child called Arpik.[1]

Matinian-Arghutian died on 12 December 1930 in Paris, France.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Սաթենիկ Արղութեան (Մատինեան, 1874-1930). Հայկական Յեղափոխութեան Ոգեշնչող «". Aztag Daily - Ազդակ Օրաթերթ (Armenian Daily Newspaper based in Lebanon) (in Armenian). 15 December 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Սաթենիկ Արղութեան (Մատինեան, 1874-1930). Հայկական Յեղափոխութեան Աներեր Ծաղիկը". Հայ Յեղափոխական Դաշնակցութիւն (in Armenian). 12 December 2013. Archived from the original on 1 September 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2025.
  3. ^ a b Avetisyan, Vigen (9 December 2022). "Rifles, Bombings and Prisons: Women's Work of Revolutionary Armenia (Part I)". Art-A-Tsolum. Archived from the original on 20 April 2025. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  4. ^ a b Keddie, Nikki R. (2000). Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie. Mazda Publishers. pp. 89–90. ISBN 978-1-56859-099-8.
  5. ^ Meneshian, Murad (5 February 2016). "The Founding of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation". The Armenian Weekly. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  6. ^ Berberian, Houri (1 January 2022). "The Dashnaktsutiun and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905–1911". Iranian Studies. 29 (1–2): 7–33. doi:10.1080/00210869608701840. ISSN 0021-0862. Archived from the original on 27 May 2025. Retrieved 4 May 2025.
  7. ^ Nalbandian, Louise (1967). The Armenian Revolutionary Movement. University of California Press. p. 213.
  8. ^ Berberian, Houri (19 February 2018). Armenians And The Iranian Constitutional Revolution Of 1905-1911: The Love For Freedom Has No Fatherland. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-98184-5.
  9. ^ a b Berberian, Houri; Grigor, Talinn (4 March 2025). The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979. Stanford University Press. pp. 180–183. ISBN 978-1-5036-4194-5.