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Hagop Avesyan
Hakob or Hagop (; Eastern Armenian pronunciation: , Western Armenian pronunciation: ) is a common Armenian first name derived from Greek Ἰακώβ, ''Iakṓb'', equivalent to English Jacob. A common diminutive form is Hakobik ( or ). The common Armenian surname Hakobyan/Hagopian ( or ) is derived from this name. Notable people named Agop * Agop Dilaçar (or Hagop Martayan) (1895–1979), Turkish-Armenian linguist and specialist in Turkic languages *Agop Donabidian (born 1981), Lebanese footballer and coach *Agop Jack Hacikyan (1931–2015), Canadian-Armenian university Professor of Literary Studies, historian, academic and writer *Agop Handanyan (1834–1899), Ottoman Armenian physician, writer, translator and professor * Agop Melkonyan (1949–2006), Bulgarian science fiction writer * Agop Terzan (1927–2020), Armenian-French astronomer Surname *Armen Agop (born 1969), Egyptian artist * Rolf Agop (1908–1998), German conductor and academic *Güllü Agop (1840–1902), Ottom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Armenian
Eastern Armenian () is one of the two standardized forms of Modern Armenian, the other being Western Armenian. The two standards form a pluricentric language. Eastern Armenian is spoken in Armenia, Russia, as well as Georgia, and by the Armenian community in Iran. Although the Eastern Armenian spoken by Armenians in Armenia and Iranian-Armenians are similar, there are pronunciation differences with different inflections. Armenians from Iran also have some words that are unique to them. Due to migrations of speakers from Armenia and Iran to the Armenian diaspora, the dialect is now very prominent in countries and regions where only Western Armenian was used. Eastern Armenian is based on the Yerevan dialect. Official status and recognition Eastern Armenian is, for the most part, mutually intelligible by educated or literate users of Western Armenian – and vice versa. Conversely, semi-literate or illiterate users of lower registers of either variety may have difficulty und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Bogigian
Hagop Bogigian (April 2, 1856 – December 13, 1931) was a prominent Armenian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. Born in Hussenig, near Harput in the Ottoman Empire (present-day Elazığ, Turkey), Bogigian emigrated to the United States in 1882, seeking refuge from persecution and better economic opportunities. He became a successful antique and rug merchant and was located across the state house in Massachusetts. Background Settling in Worcester, Massachusetts, he worked various jobs before establishing a successful import business specializing in Middle Eastern goods, particularly Armenian rugs and textiles. His entrepreneurial success allowed him to amass significant wealth, which he used to support numerous charitable causes. Bogigian was deeply committed to aiding his fellow Armenians, especially those affected by the Armenian Genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Oshagan
Hagop Oshagan (; December 9, 1883, in Soloz, Bursa – February 17, 1948, in Aleppo), was an Armenian writer, playwright, and novelist. Among his many novels are the trilogy ''To One Hundred and One Years'' (Հարիւր մէկ տարուան), ''The Harlot'' (Ծակ պտուկը), and his best-known work, ''Remnants'' (Մնացորդաց, 3 vols., 1932-1934), parts of which have been translated into English by G.M.Goshgarian. Biography Oshagan was born in 1883 as Hagop Kufejian in Soloz, a village near Bursa. He was spared the fate of many of his fellow writers and managed to elude the Turkish secret police until early 1918, when he fled from Constantinople to Bulgaria, disguised as a German officer. After the armistice, he returned to Constantinople in 1919, where he adopted his literary surname and taught literature. At the end of 1922, he left Constantinople permanently after the arrival of the Kemalist forces. He lived briefly in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and then worked as an instru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Kevorkian
Hagop Kevorkian (; 1872 – 1962) was an Armenian-American archeologist, connoisseur of art, and collector. Originally from Kayseri, and a graduate of the American Robert College in Istanbul, he settled in New York City in the late 19th century, and was responsible for drawing greater attention to Near Eastern and Islamic artifacts in the United States. Career Kevorkian carried out excavations in Persia, in Sultanabad from 1903 and at the medieval city of Rey from around 1907, and assembled an outstanding collection of Oriental art, especially Islamic and Persian. He organized the exhibition of Islamic ceramics in London in 1911. The works excavated under his supervision were shown in New York in 1914. Major sales of Islamic pieces from his collection, including lacquer doors and tile panels from Isfahan, books and paintings, carpets and ceramics, were held in the 1920s at the Anderson Gallery, New York. In 1929 he acquired at auction the Mughal album of calligraphy and paintin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Kazazian Pasha
Hagop Kazazian Pasha (alternative spelling: ''Agop Kazazyan'') (1836–1891) was a high-ranking Ottoman Armenian official, who served as the Minister of Finance and the Minister of the Privy Treasury during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. Famed at the time for his loyalty, he received a state funeral after he died in 1891 from a horse-riding accident on the grounds of Kalender Kasrı while riding a horse that had been a gift from the sultan. Biography Life and early career Despite Hagop Kazazian's lack of higher education, he was able to rise in the bureaucracy of the Ottoman State through the diligence he showed in financial matters. During the early years of his career, he served as the head of the translation department for the Ottoman Bank, a post that allowed him to forge ties to the Palace. After uncovering a case of malpractice at the bank, he was recommended by the General Director of the Ottoman Bank to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who was looking to put the affairs of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Kassarjian
Hagop Kassarjian (born in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon in 1946) is a Lebanese politician of Armenian descent. Life After graduating with an engineering degree from the American University of Beirut, he joined the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party (ADL, Ramgavar Party) and in the 1990s, became the head of the party in Lebanon. He was elected to one of the Armenian Orthodox seats in Beirut on the list of Rafic Hariri's list in 2000. This was the first time an official ADL party member was being elected to the Lebanese Parliament. He was reelected in 2005 as a member of the Movement of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Kantarjian
Hagop Kantarjian is a hematologist and oncologist specializing in leukemia. He is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Leukemia at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, where he holds the Samsung Distinguished Leukemia Chair in Cancer Medicine. Early life and education Hagop Kantarjian was born in Beirut in 1954 to an Armenian family. He studied at the American University of Beirut (AUB), earning a Baccalaureate II in 1972, a Bachelor of Science degree in 1975, and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree in 1979. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at AUB before moving to the United States in 1981. He then pursued a fellowship in hematology and medical oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, completing his training in 1983. Career In 1981, Hagop Kantarjian joined The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a fellow in the Department of Developmental Therapeutics. He later held several academic positions, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Ishkanian
Hagop Ishkanian (, born 27 July 1938) is a contemporary Armenian and American sculptor. Biography Hagop Ishkanian was born on 27 July 1938 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1948 he emigrated with his family to Soviet Armenia. In 1964 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Creative Art and Theatre (now known as the Yerevan State Academy of Art). That same year he participated in exhibitions organised by the state and the Armenian Union of Artists. In 1968 he joined the Armenian Union of Painters. Until 1977 he was a senior lecturer at the Yerevan Pedagogical Institute. In 1977 he emigrated to the United States where he continues to live and work. Hagop Ishkanian's works are housed in the National Gallery of Armenia and private collections around the world. In the United States, Ishkanian worked as an exterior and interior designer creating bespoke art and fixtures for a range of clients. He also briefly taught jewellery making at Torrance Joslyn Art Center (from 1990 to 1994) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raffi (novelist)
Hakob Melik Hakobian ( ( classical); 1835 – 25 April 1888), better known by his pen name Raffi (), was an Armenian author and leading figure in 19th-century Armenian literature. He is considered one of the most influential and popular modern Armenian authors. His works, especially his historical novels, played an important role in the development of modern Armenian nationalism. Ara Baliozian described him as Armenia's "greatest novelist of the 19th century." Biography Raffi was born in 1835 in the village of Payajuk in the district of Salmas in northwestern Iran. He was the eldest son of thirteen children in a family of hereditary Armenian gentry ( ''melik''s). His father, Melik Mirza, was a wealthy merchant. He began his education at a local school run by a priest, Father Teodik, whom he would later depict in his novel ''Kaytser'' ("Sparks"). At the age of 12, his father sent him to Tiflis (Tbilisi), at that time a major center of Armenian intellectual life, to continue h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagop Hagopian (guerilla)
Hagop Hagopian (or Agop Agopian; ; 1951 – 28 April 1988) was an Iraqi-Armenian militant leader who founded and led ASALA. Life An Iraqi Armenian born in Mosul as Harutiun Takushian (), he took the nom de guerre Hagop Hagopian, and moved to Lebanon, where according to some sources he joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In 1975, along with writer Kevork Ajemian and others, and with the support from Palestinian groups, he founded in Beirut the ASALA. As leader of ASALA, he directed attacks and assassinations of Turkish diplomats and their families in various countries of the world. Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Hagopian fled and supposedly set up new bases in Damascus and Athens. He broke with the Palestine Liberation Organization, which had given ASALA training and support, and linked up with the anti-PLO leader Abu Nidal. Hagopian was wanted in France for masterminding the Orly Airport attack in July 1983. This attack resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Son Shall Be Armenian
''My Son Shall Be Armenian'' (Original French title: ''Mon fils sera arménien'') is a 2004 Canadian documentary by Hagop Goudsouzian, who travels to Armenia and Syria with five other members of Montreal's Armenian community who lost relatives in the Armenian genocide, to speak with survivors. In Syria, Goudsouzian films in Deir ez-Zor, where thousands of Armenians were marched to death. In one scene, he scrapes the soil around a church and discovers the remains of what appears to be a mass grave, scooping up bones, a wedding ring and a bullet. In Armenia, Goudsouzian visits villages that had been renamed for former settlements, finding elders who recount what had occurred to their parents and siblings. ''My Son Shall Be Armenian'' incorporates archival photographs and footage from a Hollywood silent movie based on the accounts of one survivor who escaped to the United States during the genocide. Participants in the film include Canadian artist Lousnak and TV host Patrick Masbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armenian Revolutionary Federation
The Armenian Revolutionary Federation (, abbr. ARF (ՀՅԴ) or ARF-D), also known as Dashnaktsutyun (Armenians, Armenian: Դաշնակցություն, Literal translation, lit. "Federation"), is an Armenian nationalism, Armenian nationalist and Socialism, socialist political party founded in 1890 in Tbilisi, Tiflis, Russian Empire by Christapor Mikaelian, Stepan Zorian, and Simon Zavarian. , the party operates in Armenia, Lebanon, Iran and in countries where the Armenian diaspora is present. The party was also active in Artsakh Republic, Artsakh until the 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijani offensive in September 2023. Although it has long been the most influential political party in the Armenian diaspora, it has a comparatively smaller proportional presence in the Armenia, Republic of Armenia. , the party was represented in two national parliaments, with ten seats in the National Assembly of Armenia and three seats in the Parliament of Lebanon as part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
