Antranig Chalabian
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Antranig Chalabian (March 11, 1922, in
Kessab Kessab ( ; ), also spelled Kesab or Kasab, is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located 59 kilometers north of Latakia. It is situated near the border with Turkey on the slope of Mount Aqraa, 800 me ...
,
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– April 12, 2011, in
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) was a medical illustrator, cartographer and historian, an author of several volumes on
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. He is best known for his biography of General Andranik Ozanyan.


Biography

He was born in 1922 in
Kessab Kessab ( ; ), also spelled Kesab or Kasab, is a town in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Latakia Governorate, located 59 kilometers north of Latakia. It is situated near the border with Turkey on the slope of Mount Aqraa, 800 me ...
, modern-day Syria. After graduating from the Armenian Evangelical School, he studied at Aleppo College. Then, in the summer of 1949, Chalabian moved to Beirut and took a position in the physiology department of the
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(AUB). In 1977, Chalabian and his family immigrated to the
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, where Chalabian worked as public relations director at the AGBU Alex Manoogian School. In 1984 he published his first historical book ''General Andranik and the Armenian Revolutionary Movement''. In 1989 at the History Department of the
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he was awarded a doctorate in history. The book was later translated into English, Turkish, Greek and Spanish. The book became an instant best seller (75,000 copies sold only in Armenia). Academician Mkrtich G. Nersisyan called the book a "valuable historical work resulted by many years of persistent research". Chalabian is also the author of ''Revolutionary Figures'' (1991), ''Armenia After Coming of Islam'' and ''Dro'' books. Chalabian received numerous accolades and recognition. The mayor of Southfield designated in 2005 a day as Dr. Antranig Chalabian Day in recognition of his goodwill ambassadorship of the city through his readers worldwide. He was an invited contributor to ''Military History'' Magazine, and regularly contributed articles to the Armenian publications like '' Spurk'', '' Nayiri'', ''Chanasser'', ''
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'' and '' Andranikological Review'' papers. Before writing and publishing his books, Chalabian collaborated with Dr.
Stanley Kerr Stanley Elphinstone Kerr (March 30, 1894 – December 14, 1976) was an American humanitarian, clinical biochemist and educator. Life and career Kerr was the son of a Presbyterian minister. A clinical biochemist at Walter Reed Hospital, he l ...
after discovering Kerr's personal notes in the attic of the Physiology Department. Kerr had moved to New Jersey after retiring in 1965 from his distinguished career as the Chairman of the Biochemistry Department of the American University of Beirut. However, he had left his notes behind assuming that the notes were long lost through the years. Kerr had kept his notes and taken hitherto unpublished pictures while serving in
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. In 1919, Kerr was transferred to Marash, in central Anatolia, where he headed the American relief operations. The outcome of their collaborative work was the publication of Kerr's '' The Lions of Marash'' in 1973. While collaborating with Kerr, Henry Wilfrid Glockler, a one-time controller at AUB and a neighbor of the Kerrs in Princenton, entrusted Chalabian his personal memoirs. Chalabian edited the memoirs and had it published in Beirut in 1969 by ''Sevan'' publishing house. The book is titled ''Interned in Turkey''.


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Memorial for Dr. Antranig Chalabian (1922-2011)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chalabian, Antranig People from Kessab Ethnic Armenian historians Syrian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Syrian historians Syrian people of Armenian descent 2011 deaths 1922 births 20th-century cartographers Syrian expatriates in Lebanon