Hovhannes Khan Massehian

Hovhannes Khan Massehian

Hovhannes Khan Massehian (also Avannès Khan Mossaed-es Saltanach , born February 28, 1864 in Tehran , † November 19, 1931 in Harbin ) was an Armenian politician and Persian ambassador .

Life

Hovhannes Khan Massehian was the son of Anna Yervandian and Agha Tserooni, goldsmith and purveyor to the court of Naser ad-Din Shah . Hovhaness Khan attended an Armenian Pag school which was named after Shah Abdul Aziz and was directed by Usta Mekertoom. In 1870 a group of people of Armenian faith led by Michael Markarian and Josef Gasparian founded the first Armenian elementary school in Persia which was called the Haykazian School. Johannes Khan Mossaed attended this from 1870 to 1887. He then studied with Anton Khan Yervandian, a maternal uncle who was already involved in the training of Nāser ad-Dīn Shāh, in Tabriz .

From 1882 to 1884 he studied social science and political science at the Collège de France in Paris . From 1884 he was employed as a translator at the court of Nāser ad-Dīn Shāh in Tehran . In 1887 he accompanied the delegation of Prince Hessam-ol-Saltaneh on the 50th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne as a dragoman . In 1894 he accompanied Amir Khan Sardar's delegation to the coronation of Nicholas II in Saint Petersburg as a dragoman. In 1897 he brought Mozaffar ad-Din Shah's greetings to Queen Victoria on her 80th birthday at Buckingham Palace in London . 1900 he was appointed as Counselor to Berlin sent where he from 1903 to 1911 charge d'affaires was.

He spoke seven languages ​​fluently. From 1911 to 1921 he headed the office of the chairman of the Majles in Tehran , Abol-Ghassem Khan Gharagozlou, Nasser-ol-Molk. For the election of the Central Committee of the Armenian National Union on January 25, 1919, Hovhannes Khan Massehian with Harutiun Mosdichian was the Armenian candidate Apostolic Church , while Manuk Hambardzumian and Zatik Matikian were candidates for the Armenian Revolutionary Federation . Abol-Ghassem Khan Gharagozlou, succeeded in getting Khan Massehian promoted to ambassador and sent to Berlin, where he resided from 1922 to 1927 , contrary to a rule that reserved the rank of ambassador for Muslims .

1927 Hovhannes Khan was representing the Armenians of southern Iran in the Majlis elected and as ambassador to London sent. Where in 1921 Hamlet , which he translated into Armenian, was published , in 1923 Othello and The Merchant of Venice .

In 1929 Reza Shah Pahlavi established diplomatic and economic relations with Hirohito in Japan and sent Johannes Khan Mossaed to Tokyo . Johannes Khan Mossaed fell ill in Tokyo, resigned from his office and was allowed to return to Persia. On the way back he died in a Harbin hospital in China. The French consul in Harbin took up the matter of the Persian citizen and mistakenly concluded from the diplomatic passport for Massehian that the religion of the deceased was Islam and arranged a funeral according to the rules of Islam. Under Reza Shah Pahlavi, Khan Mossaed was buried on March 31st in the cemetery of Saint Minas ( Menas ) in Vanak .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abol-Ghassem Khan Gharagozlou, Nasser-ol-Molk . qajarpages.org. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
2. ↑ George Byron Kooshian, Jr .: The Armenian Immigrant Community of California: 1880–1935 (PDF; 1.4 MB) webpages.charter.net. Archived from the original on December 15, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 24, 2011. 
3. ^ John Murray, The Year's work in English studies , Volume 3, English Association, 1923
4. ^ National Portrait Gallery (London) Hovhannes Khan Mossaed . npg.org.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2011.
5. ↑ Hovhaness Khan Massehian. In: grigorianslaw.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 24, 2011 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Reza Khan Geranmayeh Moayyedossaltaneh	Persian chargé d'affaires in Berlin 1903–1911	Hussein Kuli Khan Nawab
Abdul Ali Khan Sadigh-es-Saltaneh	Persian ambassador in Berlin 1921–1927	Abol Qassem Nadschm
Nader Arasteh	Persian Ambassador to London September 26, 1927-19. November 1929	Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh
	Persian ambassador to Tokyo 1929–1931	March 1940 to May 1942: Abol Qassem Nadschm