Zvart Badmutiunner (Avedis Nakkashian, 1926)
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Zvart Badmutiunner (Avedis Nakkashian, 1926)Secondary Title
Զուարթ պատմութիւններ իրական եւ ընկերային կեանքէ առնուած.Description
Dr. Avedis Nakashian (1869–1944) was an Armenian-born physician from Aintab who graduated from the American College there in 1887 and from the Medical School of the American University of Beirut in 1894. During the 1895 massacres, he served as a doctor in Urfa, treating many wounded Armenians. Arrested during the April 24, 1915 roundup of Armenian intellectuals and sent to Ayash, he was released on July 23, 1915. After sending his family to Bulgaria, he served as a captain in the Ottoman army’s Gülhane Hospital during the Gallipoli campaign and later immigrated to the United States. Settling in New York, he practiced medicine from 1924 until retiring due to illness in 1941. In 1940, he published his autobiography, A Man Who Found a Country, recounting his life from Ottoman Turkey to America. Dr. Nakashian died in 1944 at Wadsworth Hospital in New York at the age of 75, survived by his son, Lieutenant S. James Nakashian, and three daughters, including Mrs. Phylira Telfeyan of Forest Hills, Queens.Category
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