Louis Dartige du Fournet was the French officer who completed the epic resistance of Musa Dagh by rescuing the Armenians that had taken to the mountain to fight the Turkish order of deportation in 1915. He was born in Putanges-Pont-Écrepin on March 2, 1856. He entered the French Naval Academy and graduated as his class valedictorian. He served in various ships from 1874 and 1885, while climbing the ranks to lieutenant (1883).
Hovhannes Baghishetsi (Golod), Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, was one of the pioneers of Western Armenian renaissance with his religious, public, and cultural activities. He was born in the village of Khoghts, in Baghesh (Bitlis), in 1678. He was called Golod because of his short height. He received his educate in the university of the monastery of Amerdol, and after graduation, in 1689 he was ordained celibate priest. He became a member of the congregation of the monastery of …
Aharon Dadourian, who frequently signed with his first name, was a poet who started his career in the years before the genocide and continued writing for the next half a century in the Diaspora, but was little known outside of a narrow circle. He was born in Ovajik (province of Ismit, in Asia Minor) on September 19, 1887. He initially studied at the Mekhitarist School of Constantinople and then at the Moօrat-Raphaelian Lyceum of Venice (1907-1909), where he met the great poet, Taniel Varoujan.
The first visit of Bryce to historical Armenia was in 1876 to climb Mount Ararat, after which he published the book Transcaucasia and Ararat (1877), a narrative of travel notes with several political observations and conclusions. After his trip to Armenia, in 1878 Bryce established the Anglo-Armenian Association, with Lord Carnarvon as president and Bryce as secretary. In 1880 he traveled to historical Armenia for the second time, visiting also Smyrna and Constantinople. In 1893, Bryce initiated the formation of the new Anglo-Armenian …
Haik Asatrian was an Armenian political theorist and an associate and close friend of Garegin Nzhdeh who became a victim of Stalinism.
He was born in the village of Yerits, in the district of Alashkert (Western Armenia) on February 5, 1900. His father was the head of the village and passed away when he was eight. He remained under his mother’s care along with his siblings…
Armenag Salmaslian was born on December 10, 1888, in Mkhalich, a village near Brusa (Bursa), in Turkey. He studied at the Berberian College in Constantinople between 1900 and 1906, followed by his studies at the Robert College (1906–1911).
He pursued higher education at the School of Law of the University of Paris and graduated in 1914. He published his book The Clause of the Most Favored Nation (1921, in French) and obtained a doctorate in jurisprudence in 1922.
Stepan Lisitsian was a pioneering name in several fields at the turn of the twentieth century. He is particularly remembered for his work as an educator and ethnographer.
He was born on September 22, 1865, in Tiflis, in a doctor’s family. After graduating from the Russian gymnasium (high school) in 1884 with highest grades, he entered the school of History and Philology of Odessa University (Crimea) the following year.
Hunkearbeyendian was a teacher in various Armenian schools of Constantinople in the neighborhoods of Gedikpasa, Haskeuy and Pera (nowadays Beyoglu). He married in 1849 and Patriarch Hagopos Seropian (1839-1840, 1848–1856) consecrated him priest in 1852. The future dictionary author was born on November 25, 1818, in the Ottoman capital. His given name was Tateos. His father was also a priest and called Hovhannes Hunkearbeyendian too. He was educated at the school of the Armenian Cathedral of …
Ida Kar was a photographer active mainly in London after 1945. She made a significant contribution to the recognition of photography as a form of fine art with her solo show in 1960. Kar was born Ida Karamian in Tambov, Russia, on April 8, 1908. Her father was a professor of mathematics and physics. The family moved to Iran in 1916 and to Alexandria, Egypt, in 1921. She studied at the Lycée Français there and went to Paris in 1928 to study chemistry and medicine, but soon …
Vigen Khechumian was one of the most original and less known prose writers of Soviet Armenian literature. His lengthy career in contact with old Armenian manuscripts gave Khechumian the opportunity to get acquianted with many episodes of the past that had remained on the margins of the texts and colophons. He also wrote on contemporary issues, but his most successful works were devoted to medieval times: “What I write is a dialogue of day and night with the ancient Armenian manuscripts, a book of books about them…
