Davtak Kertogh

Armenian poet
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IntroArmenian poet
PlacesArmenia
isPoet
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
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Biography

Davtak Kertogh (Davtak the Poet) was a 7th-century Armenian poet, the first secular writer in Armenian literature. He is the author of "Elegy on the Death of the Great Prince Jevansher", dedicated to the first Sassanid Persian prince of Caucasian Albania, who accepted Christianity and was murdered.
The only surviving poem by Kertogh is written in alphabetical acrostic verse.

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