Vahan Kurkjian
![]() | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
Vahan Kurkjian | |
---|---|
Born | 1863 |
Died | 1961 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Boston University |
Occupation(s) | author, historian, teacher, and community leader |
Website | History of Armenia |
Vahan M. Kurkjian (Armenian: Վահան Մ. Քիւրքճեան; 1863–1961) was an Armenian author, historian, teacher, and community leader.
In 1904, in Cairo, he published the Armenian newspaper Loussaper (The Morning Star), in the pages of which he and other intellectuals called for a national union for the Armenian people. The idea eventually materialized in the form of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. In 1907 he emigrated to the United States and studied law at Boston University. Two years later, also in Boston, he founded the first American chapter of the Armenian General Benevolent Union. From its inception he was inseparably identified with that organization, serving as its executive director until his retirement in 1939. Kurkjian was a frequent contributor of articles to Armenian newspapers, and published a number of books and pamphlets, among which the best-remembered is his History of Armenia.
Editions
- A History of Armenia
- Armenian General Benevolent Union of America, 1964
- Indo-European Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-1-60444-012-6
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with topics of unclear notability from July 2017
- All articles with topics of unclear notability
- Biography articles with topics of unclear notability
- Articles lacking sources from September 2020
- All articles lacking sources
- Articles with multiple maintenance issues
- Articles with hCards
- Articles containing Armenian-language text
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- People from Aleppo
- Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
- Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States
- Ethnic Armenian historians
- American writers of Armenian descent
- Boston University School of Law alumni
- 1863 births
- 1961 deaths
- 19th-century Armenian historians
- 19th-century journalists from the Ottoman Empire
- 19th-century historians from the Ottoman Empire
- People from the Khedivate of Egypt
- All stub articles
- Armenian writer stubs
- Asian historian stubs
- European historian stubs
- Armenian history stubs