Abram Ossipowitsch Gukassow

Abram Ossipowitsch Gukassow

Abram Ossipowitsch Gukassow ( Russian Абрам Осипович Гукасов ; born November 23 ^{. Jul} / 5. December  1872 ^greg. In Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh in the former province Jelisawetpol ; † 27. April 1969 in Geneva ) was a Armenian - Russian businessman and patron .

Life

Gukassow, younger brother of petroleum entrepreneur Pavel Osipovich Gukassow from the family Gukassjan ( Armenian Ղուկասյան ), visited in Moscow the Lazarev -Institute for Oriental Languages with completion in 1890. Then he started in Odessa to study at the physico - mathematical faculty of the new Russian university , which he graduated from the University of Leipzig in 1894. He became a doctor of natural sciences ( geology ) and in 1898 doctor of philosophy.

From 1899 Gukassow lived in London . He represented his family's European business and was head of the Caspian Society in Europe. In 1907 he founded the shipbuilding company Balting Trading Company . During the First World War he managed the Pella shipyard in Petrograd .

After the October Revolution , Gukassow emigrated to France and founded the shipbuilding company for petroleum tankers Les Petroles d'Outre-Mer . In 1925 he founded the magazine Wiedergeburt and published it until 1940. He financed the Congress of Russians Abroad in Paris . From 1926 he was managing director of the Russian Central Association.

After the Second World War , Gukassow founded the rebirth in 1949 as a literary - political magazine, which appeared until 1974. He founded the Armenian Brothers Gukassjan Foundation .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Лариса Жигальцова: " Принадлежность России должна быть источником гордости ...": Абрам Осипович (accessed on June 2, 2017) . In: Родина . No. 10 , 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} ВИРТУАЛЬНЫЙ МУЗЕЙ: ГУКАСОВЫ (accessed June 2, 2017).