Parsegh Shahbaz

[1] He received his early education in Constantinople in the Armenian schools of Mayr Varjaran, Getronagan, and Mkhitarian.

[1] During his time in Italy, Shahbaz met Avetis Aharonian who convinced him to join the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.

In Egypt, Shahbaz became a laborer for five years while he continued to contribute to various local Armenian journals and newspapers.

[1] After the Young Turk revolution in 1908, Shahbaz returned to the Ottoman Empire where he continued his political activism.

While in Paris, he continued contributing to various journals such as Mikayel Varandian's Pro Armenia and other newspapers such as Horizon and Hayrenik.

[4][5] According to the writer Yervant Odian, who lived an apartment floor below him, Shahbaz's wife was worried and "still hasn't calmed down" for a long time after his arrest.

He remained without food for a week and was severely beaten and finally killed by gendarmes under the wall of 'a factory'.