Yacoub Artin (15 April 1842 – 21 January 1919) was an ethnic Armenian educator and scholar working in Egypt. He was of Armenian descent, working for the

Ministry of Public Education An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Pub ...

in 1888. It was noted in a period newspaper that he was one of many "non-Muslim" Egyptians working for the government at the time, a source of irritation among a segment of the population. He was an Armenian Orthodox christian; again it was noted in 1895 that a "non-Muslim" was in charge of education for a largely Muslim population.

Works

* ''La proprieté foncière en Égypte'', Cairo, 1883. Translated by Edward Abbott van Dyck as ''The right of landed property in Egypt'', London, 1885. * ''L'instruction publique en Egypte'', Paris, 1890. * (tr.) ''Contes populaires inédits de la vallée du Nil'', Paris, 1895. * ''Contribution à l'étude du blason en Orient'', London, 1902. * ''England in the Sudan'', London: Macmillan, 1911. Translated from French by George Robb.

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1842 births 1919 deaths Armenian educators 20th-century Armenian writers Egyptian people of Armenian descent 19th-century Egyptian writers 20th-century Egyptian educators 19th-century Armenian writers {{Armenia-writer-stub