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Hovsep Grigoryan
Hovsep is Armenian for Joseph. Notable people with the name include: * Hovsep Pushman, American artist * Hovsep Kirakosyan, Armenian military officer * Hovsep Arghutian * Hovsep Aznavur * Hovsep Orbeli * Hovsep Emin Joseph Emin (, Hovsep Emin; 1726 – 2 August 1809) was an Indo-Armenian traveler, writer and patriot who sought to achieve the liberation of Armenia from Persian and Ottoman rule. He wrote an autobiography titled ''The Life and Adventures of J ... * Hovsep Vartanian {{given name Armenian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph
Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the modern-day Nordic countries. In Portuguese and Spanish, the name is "José". In Arabic, including in the Quran, the name is spelled ''Yūsuf''. In Persian, the name is "Yousef". The name has enjoyed significant popularity in its many forms in numerous countries, and ''Joseph'' was one of the two names, along with ''Robert'', to have remained in the top 10 boys' names list in the US from 1925 to 1972. It is especially common in contemporary Israel, as either "Yossi" or "Yossef", and in Italy, where the name "Giuseppe" was the most common male name in the 20th century. In the first century CE, Joseph was the second most popular male name for Palestine Jews. In the Book of Genesis Joseph is Jacob's eleventh son and Rachel's first son, and kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Pushman
Hovsep Pushman ( hy, Յովսէփ Փուշման; May 9, 1877 – February 13, 1966) was an American artist of Armenian background. He was known for his contemplative still lifes and sensitive portraits of women, often in exotic dress. He was most closely associated during his lifetime with the Grand Central Art Galleries, which represented him from its opening in 1922 until his death in 1966. Life Hovsep Pushman was born and grew up in the town of Dikranagerd in the Ottoman Empire,Vartanian, Hrag (January 4, 2002ONE OF A KIND: ARMENIAN CREATORS & CONNOISSEURS AGBU News where his family, originally "Pushmanian," was in the carpet business. Pushman showed artistic ability early, and at age 11 was the youngest student ever admitted to Istanbul's Imperial School of Fine Arts. In 1896, Pushman's family emigrated to Chicago, where he studied Chinese culture, immersing himself in Asian art, and began to teach at the age of 17. He then moved to Paris and studied at the Académie Julia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Kirakosyan
Hovsep Kirakosyan ( hy, Հովսեփ Կիրակոսյան; 23 August 1988 – 2 April 2016) was a military officer in the Armenian Armed Forces who died during the 2016 Armenian-Azerbaijani clashes. Biography He was born on 23 August 1988 in Apaga, a village in the Armavir region of Armenia. His ancestors came from the town of Sasun in Western Armenia. He has always dreamed of becoming a soldier. Both of his parents were against his enlistment, but were nonetheless proud of his high grades at the military academy. Hovsep Kirakosyan enlisted in the Armenian Armed Forces in 2006. He went to the Vazgen Sargsyan Military Institute in Yerevan and a few years later was commissioned as a combat engineering officer. He was assigned to the Artsakh Defense Army. April War The April War The invasion of Yugoslavia, also known as the April War or Operation 25, or ''Projekt 25'' was a German-led attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers which began on 6 April 1941 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Arghutian
Prince Hovsep Arghutian (; 1863 – 1925), also known as Khanasori Ishkhan and Ishkhan Arghutian, was an Armenian military commander and political activist. Biography Hovsep Arghutian was born in Sanahin, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire to an aristocratic family. His family drew its descent from the Armenian Argutinsky-Dolgorukov noble family . Arghutian graduated from the Nersisian Seminary in Tiflis and was a school teacher in the village of Jalaloghly (now Stepanavan, Armenia). In the late 1880s, he took up an active role in the Armenian affairs in the Ottoman Empire. In 1889, he made his way into the empire's eastern Anatolian provinces, where he worked with underground revolutionary groups, including the leader Arabo. He participated in the 1897 Khanasor Expedition. Afterward, he was arrested as a Russian citizen by Persian authorities and sent to Vologda, but was soon released. During the 1905-1907 Armenian-Tatar disturbances, he helped organized Armenian self-defense g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Aznavur
Hovsep Aznavur ( hy, Հովսեփ Ազնավուր, hyw, Յովսէփ Ազնաւուր; 1854 in London – June 1935 in Cairo) was an Ottoman Armenian architect. He is noted for his construction plans for the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church of Istanbul, Turkey. Biography Born in London in 1854, Aznavur's family moved to Istanbul in 1867. Aznavur completed his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Some of his best known works are Bulgarian St. Stephen Church, Mısır Apartment and Aznavur Passage. His workshop was located at Saint Pierre Han in Galata. Asnavur was active in Armenian community life. In 1921, he became a founding member of the Ramgavar Party, one of the three major historic Armenian political parties. He escaped from Istanbul after the Armenian genocide and died at the end of June 1935 in Cairo, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Orbeli
Joseph Orbeli ( hy, Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; russian: Иосиф Абгарович Орбели, Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli; 20 March ( O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. Of Armenian descent, he was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47). Yuzbashyan, Karen ''«Օրբելի, Հովսեփ Աբգարի»'' rbeli, Hovsep AbgariArmenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1986, vol. 12, pp. 584–585. Biography Early life and education Born into the Orbelian Dynasty in Kutaisi, Russian Georgia in 1887, Joseph Orbeli completed his secondary education at a classical gymnasium in Tbilisi. Anon. "Հովսեփ Օրբելի" ovsep Orbeli ''Patma-Banasirakan Handes'' 12/1 (1961), pp. 229– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Emin
Joseph Emin (, Hovsep Emin; 1726 – 2 August 1809) was an Indo-Armenian traveler, writer and patriot who sought to achieve the liberation of Armenia from Persian and Ottoman rule. He wrote an autobiography titled ''The Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin the Armenian Written in English by Himself'', which was first published in London in 1792. Born in Hamadan and raised in Calcutta, he traveled to London as a young man, received a military education there, and fought in the Seven Years' War. In 1759-1760, he traveled to Armenia for the first time, preaching his ideas of liberation to Armenian villagers along the way. He then went to Russia to seek support for his program for the liberation of Armenia. In 1763 he left Russia for Georgia with a group of supporters and was received by the Georgian king Heraclius II. Emin established contacts in Ottoman Armenia, hoping to eventually raise a rebellion with Heraclius's support. However, in 1764 the Georgian king exiled Emin, who the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hovsep Vartanian
Hovsep Vartanian ( hy, Յովսէփ Վարդանեան), better known as Vartan Pasha ( hy, Վարդան փաշա; 1813 – 1879), was an Ottoman Armenian statesman, author, and journalist of the 19th century, promoted to the rank of pasha after three decades in the service of the state. He is also notable for his novel "Akabi's Story" ('' Akabi Hikâyesi''), published in 1851 in Turkish written in the Armenian script (a not unusual practice in the 19th century), and for having published the bilingual magazine '' Mecmua-i Havadis'', an important reference in the history of the Turkish written press. His novel is, according to the Austrian Turkologist Andreas Tietze who re-edited it and had a transcription published in 1991, the first genuine novel published in Turkey or, according to another viewpoint, "one of the five early, contemporaneous and intermediate works of fiction that were clearly distinct from earlier prose traditions in both Divan and folk literature, and that approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
