Boghos Bey Yusufian
Boghos Bey Yusufian , also Baghous Bey Youssefian ( Arabic بوغوص يوسفيان, Armenian Պողոս Յուսուֆյան , * 1775 in Smyrna ; † 1844 ) was a trade and foreign minister of Muhammad Ali Pasha .
Life
His parents were Mart'a and Hovsĕp, an Armenian trader from Kayseri who had settled in Smyrna. With his brother Bedros, Boghos Bey Yusufian was trained in the home and office of their uncle Arakel Abroyan, the dragoman at the British Consulate in Izmir . Arakel Abroyan passed the post of dragoman on to Boghos. Bedros Yusufian ran a trading company based in Trieste .
In the 1790s, Boghos Bey Yusufian was the customs officer for Murad Bey Muhammad in the Egyptian Rosette . Under Wali Muhammad Ali Pasha , El Kebir , he was Minister of Commerce and Foreign Affairs.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Institut français d'études anatoliennes d'Istanbul, Médecins et ingénieurs ottomans à l'âge des nationalismes in the Google book search; F. Robert Hunter, Egypt under the khedives, 1805-1879 in a Google book search
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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Egyptian Minister of Commerce and Foreign Affairs 1826–1844 |
Artin Bey Shoukry |
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| SURNAME | Yusufian, Boghos Bey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Youssefian, Baghous Bey |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian Foreign Minister (1826-1844) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1775 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smyrna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1844 |