Armais Sergeevich Arutunoff was an inventor of technology for oil drilling. He was born in Tiflis, then part of the Russian Empire, into an Armenian family. He emigrated to the United States in 1923 and moved to Oklahoma in 1928, where he started a company to build an electric submersible pump for use at the …
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Egypt’s largest tobacco factory was founded by the Matossian brothers. In 1882, Hovhannes Bey Matossian founded the Matossian Tobacco enterprise in Alexandria. In 1886, his brother Garabed opened his factory in Cairo. The brothers merged their ventures in 1896 under the name of H & G. Matossian. They owned four factories. Some 7,000 Armenians worked …
Zareh Yaldizciyan (10 May 1924 – 20 February 2007), Զարէհ Եալտըզճեան, better known by his pen name Zahrad (Armenian: Զահրատ), was a poet who lived in Turkey and wrote poems in the Armenian language. Of Armenian descent, Zahrad was born in the Nişantaşı district of Istanbul, Turkey. His father, Movses, had been a jurist, adviser, …
Keri, a native of Erznka, was very much loved and respected among the Kurds of Dersim. The seeds of friendship and harmony he had sown may have germinated during the 1915 deportations and massacres of the Armenians of Erzinjan. Kurds in Dersim gave refuge to and saved the lives of many deportees. Still later, when …
Abu al-Fatḥ Manuchihr Khan (died 1636), was a Safavid official and gholam of Armenian origin. Like his father Qarachaqay Khan, Manuchihr was established at Mashhad as the general and governor of Khorasan under the shahs (kings) Abbas I and Ṣāfi. His brother Ali Quli Khan became prefect of Qom and head of the library of …
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Christopher or Khachatour Der-Serobyan is known as the inventor of the unique, tamperproof chemical composition of black and green dyes for the US dollar. In 1842, Der-Serobyan moved to the US and entered Yale University, where he studied chemistry, medicine, and theology. In 1843, during chemical trials, Der-Serobyan found a unique composition of a dye, …
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WATERTOWN, Mass. (A.W.)—On the eve of Veteran’s Day, the Armenia Tree Project (ATP) and the Kanayan family hosted a special dinner in Watertown, honoring Armenian hero General Drastamat “Dro” Kanayan, who led the triumphant Armenian forces at the Battle of Bash Aparan in May 1918. In addition to being a military commander, General Dro was …
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Ignacy Lukasiewicz or Hovhannes Ghukasyan is known as the inventor of a kerosene lamp. From his childhood, Lukasiewicz was deeply interested in chemistry and medicine. He started working as a pharmacist’s assistant at the age of 16 while also attending Armenian community meetings and carrying out an active political life. Lukasiewicz started working at a …
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Sayat-Nova was an Armenian poet, musician, and ashugh, who had compositions in several languages. The Armenian Poet-Singer was born in the year 1712 in the small village of Sanahin. His real name was Haroutiun Sayakian, but he was better known as Sayat Nova, the King of songs. It was an honor bestowed on him by …
William Saroyan, (1908 -1981) was an Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940, and in 1943 won the Academy Award for Best Story for the film The Human Comedy. When the studio rejected his original 240-page treatment, he turned it into a novel, The Human …