Moses Housepian

Moses Minas Housepian (Armenie: Մովսես Մինասի Հովսեփյան, 1876 – December 11, 1952) wis an Armenie-American physeecian wha escapit the Hamidian massacres in his youth an later led a humanitarian medical mission in Roushie Armenie frae 1916-1918 treatin refugees frae the Armenie Genocide.^[1]^[2] He is creditit wi stoppin the spread o a typhus epidemic an wis cried the "Aungel o Mercy" an Dr. Purgich, Armenie frae "Dr. Saviour."^[3]

Dr. Housepian wis an aa active in the Armenie Democratic Leeberal Pairty, whose chapter in New York Ceety wis posthumously namit for him.^[4] His wife, Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian), wis active in the Armenie General Benevolent Union an ither Armenie causes.^[5] Moses an Makrouhie Housepian were the parents o the author Marjorie Housepian Dobkin an the neorosurgeon Edgar Housepian.^[6]

Housepian wis born in Kessab, Cilicie (in the umwhile Ottoman Empire, nou Syria) an died in New York Ceety.

References

↑ https://mirrorspectator.com/2011/05/14/honoring-ny-area-early-writers-and-intellectuals-of-the-mirror-spectator/
↑ https://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/
↑ Dr. M. M. Housepian: A Tribute to His Memory (pamphlet publishit in 1954 bi the Dr. M. M. Housepian Memorial Fund Committee an printit bi the Gotchnag Press in New York Ceety), p. 6: "During the First World War, news of the deportations and massacres in Turkey led Dr. Housepian to organize a volunteer group and leave for Armenia. There he found forty thousand refugees... A typhus epidemic had created urgent need for medical care... Archbishop Tirayre of [The Armenian Church's headquarters at] Etchmiadzin has observed that Dr. Housepian's efforts were directly responsible for checking the spread of the epidemic... many of his grateful patients referred to him as "Dr. Purgitch" (Dr. Savior).
↑ https://mirrorspectator.com/2015/03/12/in-memory-of-dr-edgar-housepian
↑ https://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/
↑ "In Memoriam: Dr. Edgar Housepian (1928-2014)". 22 November 2014.

[1] ttps://mirrorspectator.com/2011/05/14/honoring-ny-area-early-writers-and-intellectuals-of-the-mirror-spectator/

[2] ttps://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/

[3] Dr. M. M. Housepian: A Tribute to His Memory (pamphlet publishit in 1954 bi the Dr. M. M. Housepian Memorial Fund Committee an printit bi the Gotchnag Press in New York Ceety), p. 6: "During the First World War, news of the deportations and massacres in Turkey led Dr. Housepian to organize a volunteer group and leave for Armenia. There he found forty thousand refugees... A typhus epidemic had created urgent need for medical care... Archbishop Tirayre of [The Armenian Church's headquarters at] Etchmiadzin has observed that Dr. Housepian's efforts were directly responsible for checking the spread of the epidemic... many of his grateful patients referred to him as "Dr. Purgitch" (Dr. Savior).

[4] ttps://mirrorspectator.com/2015/03/12/in-memory-of-dr-edgar-housepian

[5] ttps://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/

[6] "In Memoriam: Dr. Edgar Housepian (1928-2014)". 22 November 2014.

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