Mgrdich Beshigtashlian, along with Bedros Tourian, was one of the most remarkable names of Armenian poetry in the period of the cultural Zartonk (awakening) of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire. He was born in Constantinople on August 18, 1828, in a Catholic family , He lost his parents at an early age due to tuberculosis. He received his education at the Mekhitarist schools of Constantinople and Padua (Italy).