He received his primary education in the village school and continued his studies in the Central School of Mezire (now Elâzığ), where he was one of the founders of provincial literature and one of the students of the writer Tlkatintsi (Hovhannes Haroutiunian), a victim of the Armenian Genocide.
[1][2] After graduating in 1911, Hamasdegh taught for a year in his hometown and then immigrated to the United States, following his father's advice.
He started working for "Hayrenik" daily in 1918, adopting the pen name Hamasdegh, combining the first syllables of the names of the three Gelenian brothers (Hambardzum, Asatur, Yeghia).
Other works include the novel "The White Horseman" and the satirical short stories entitled "Courageous Nazar," the drama "The Trumpeter of the Mountains of Armenia," and the "First Love" novel.
[5][6] On November 26, 1966, in Los Angeles, at the solemn evening dedicated to his seventieth birthday, Hamasdegh died suddenly at the podium.