Nazaret Daghavarian (, Western Armenian: Նազարէթ Տաղաւարեան, ; 1862 in Sebastia, Western Armenia, Ottoman Empire – 1915) was an Ottoman Armenian doctor, agronomist and public activist, and one of the founders of the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU). He was an author of scientific works on medicine, religion and history. Biography He was born as Chaderjian () in Sebastia and studied in the colleges of Constantinople, then finished at the University of Paris. He was the chief director of the Armenian schools of Sebastia province, then directed the Aramian school and St Savior hospital in Constantinople. Being arrested by the Turkish authorities, he was released after mediation by the French embassy and in 1905 he moved to Cairo, where he worked as a doctor and teacher and participated in the foundation of the AGBU charity organization. In 1908 after the Young Turk revolution he returned to Constantinople and was elected as a member of the Ottoman parliament and Armenian National Central Committee. He was a member of the Ramgavar Party (Armenian Democratic Liberal Party), upon which he visited the Caucasus to establish committees for this party. He was one of the founders of the Ottoman Freedom and Accord Party, which was the major opposition party to the Committee of Union and Progress. On April 24, 1915 he was arrested in Constantinople on orders of the CUP and was killed on his way to deportation, during the opening stages of the Armenian genocide. Sources The Doctors who became Victims of the Great Calamity, G. Karoyan, Boston, 1957 "Armenian Question", encyclopedia, ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1996, p. 439 1862 births 1915 deaths People who died in the Armenian genocide 19th-century physicians from the Ottoman Empire Armenian physicians 19th-century Egyptian physicians Political office-holders in the Ottoman Empire Legislators in Turkey Educators from the Ottoman Empire Armenian educators Armenians from the Ottoman Empire Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Egypt Armenian atheists University of Paris alumni Ottoman expatriates in France