Varoujan was born '' ' Daniel Tchboukkiarian ' '' ( Դանիէլ Չպուքքեարեան ) in the Prknig village of Sivas , Turkey . After attending the local school , he was sent in 1896 , the year of the Hamidian massacres , to Istanbul , where he attended the Mkhitarian school . He then continued his education at the Mourad-Rafaelian school of Venice , and in 1905 entered Ghent University in Belgium , where he followed courses in literature , sociology and economics . In 1909 he returned to his village where he taught for three years . After his marriage with Araksi Varoujan in 1912 , he became the principal of St. Gregory The Illuminator School in Istanbul
Hamidian massacres
Hamidian massacres
Daniel Varoujan