At the age of 31, when he was reaching international stature, he was deported and murdered by the Young Turk government, as part of the officially planned and executed Armenian genocide.

[5][6] Varoujan was born Daniel Tchboukkiarian (Դանիէլ Չպուքքեարեան)[7] in the village of Prknig (now called Çayboyu[8]) near the town of Sivas in Turkey.

He then continued his education at the Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael in Venice, and in 1905 entered Ghent University in Belgium, where he followed courses in literature, sociology and economics.

Participants saw as their purpose creating a "center", a temple of Art which, according to their manifesto, would attract a fragmented and spiritually scattered nation in order to promote its artistic creativity.

At that location, beside a stream, they were murdered by four Kurds headed by a local criminal named Halo acting under the instructions of members of the Ittihadist committee in Chankiri.

Varoujan's last months, starting from his arrest to death, were portrayed in an award-winning short arthouse film Taniel by British director Garo Berberian, narrated by Sean Bean.