Karekin Deveciyan

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Karekin Kemal Deveciyan ( Armenian Գարեգին Տեւէճեան , * 1868 or 1867 in Harput , Ottoman Empire , † January 8, 1964 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was an Armenian-Turkish fisheries officer. From 1910 to 1927 he held various positions in the Constantinople Directorate for Fisheries of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. He wrote the first scientific work on fish and fisheries in Turkey.

Career

After attending the French school in Harput, he graduated from the Armenian Catholic Lusavoriçyan School in Constantinople. In 1891 he began his civil service career in various functions in the Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane (Ottoman National Debt Administration ). From 1910 he worked in the central Istanbul fisheries administration. He published dictionaries on specialist fishing terms. During the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, a Turkish colonel saved him from deportation on April 23, 1915 . In 1917 he became chief inspector for fisheries, and in 1922 chief inspector of fisheries. On March 31, 1927, after 36 years as a civil servant, he left the public debt administration.

With the publication of his scientific work in Ottoman language Türkiye'de Balık ve Balıkçılık ("Fish and Fisheries in Turkey") of 1915 he became known. The translation into French ( Pêche et Pêcheries en Turquie ) took place in 1926.

In 1948 Karekin Deveciyan received an award from the Turkish Press Association ( Türk Basın Birliği ) for his many years of journalism. Karekin Deveciyan died on January 8, 1964. His son, the engineer Roland Devedjian (1901–1974) was born in Sivas . In a Francophile family in Constantinople Opel grew up, he fled in 1919 - after the genocide of the Armenians - to France. Deveciyan's grandson is the French politician Patrick Devedjian .

Works

  • Deveciyan, Karekin: Fish and Fisheries in Turkey , Constantinople 1915 in Ottoman language ; Pêche et Pêcheries en Turquie 1926 in French; New edition 2006 in Turkish by ARAS-Verlag, Istanbul.

Web links

  • Life [1] (Turkish)
  • Hauptwerk [2] (Turkish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patrick Devedjian: 'Türkiye neden Talat Paşa'yı savunuyor?'. In: Milliyet , January 21, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Cengiz Özdemir: İstanbul'un Balıkları ve Karekin Efendinin Kitabı. In: T24 , February 8, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Deveciyan, Karekin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D. Karekin Kemal; D. Karekin; K. Kemal; Karekin Dévedjian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian-Turkish zoologist; Explorer of the Ottoman fishing industry
DATE OF BIRTH 1867 or 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Harput , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1964
Place of death Istanbul , Turkey