Gazakh Teachers' Seminary
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| Gazakh Teachers' Seminary | |
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Qazax müəllimlər seminariyası | |
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| Language | Azerbaijani, Russian |
| Campus | Urban |
The Gazakh Teachers Seminary (Azerbaijani: Qazax müəllimlər seminariyası) is a teachers seminary that functioned from 1918 to 1959[1] in the Azerbaijani city of Gazakh.[2][3] It was created on the initiative of the Azerbaijani enlightener Firudin-bek Kocharli[4] and Husein Efendi Gaibov.[5]
In 1895, a graduate of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary, and the teacher of the Erivan Gymnasium, Firudin-bek Kocharli, was appointed as teacher at the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary in Gori, where from 1910[6] he became the head of the Azerbaijani branch.[7]
In early May 1918, the population of the city of Gazakh and the representatives of some rural communities of the Gazakh district filed a petition towards the educational district for the transfer of the Azerbaijani branch of the Transcaucasian Seminary from Gori to the city of Gazakh. The government has resolved this issue positively.[8] In the same year, the Azerbaijani branch of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary was relocated to the city of Gazakh.[4] Firudin-bek Kocharli was appointed the director of the Gazakh Teachers Seminary.[8] The teaching staff of the seminary was recruited among the former graduates of the Gori Seminary.[7]
In creating his own teachers seminary in Azerbaijan, Kocharli saw an opportunity to enroll a much larger number of children in education. Considering that time conditions of the transportation development of vehicles, not every family dared to let their son to go to Gori.[9]
Nowadays, the building of the seminary hosts the secondary school No. 4 of the city of Gazakh.
Famous teachers
- Firidun bey Kocharli - a graduate of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary (1885), the first director of the seminary. Along with acting as director of the seminary, he taught a course in pedagogy, the Azerbaijani language and literature.[7]
- Mirza Mehdi Velizadeh - a graduate of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary (1890s), since 1 September 1919 - primary school teacher in the seminary.
- Alai-bek Shikhlinsky - a graduate of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary (1902), until 1924 taught mathematics at the seminary.
- Akhmed-Agha Gulmamedov - a graduate of the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary (1902), taught at the seminary in 1918-1920 and in 1923–1927.
- Ali Huseynov is the father of Mehdi Husein, the Peoples Writer of Azerbaijan. Seminary director since 1920.
