Ohannés Gurekian [SEP] place of birth
Ohannés Gurekian
Ohannés Gurekian (, ; August 24, 1902 in Constantinople - March 1, 1984 in Asolo) was an Armenian architect, engineer, and alpinist.
Biography.
Biography Early life and education.
Ohannés Gurekian, son of Léon Gurekian and Mariamik Azarian, was born August 24, 1902 in Constantinople. He emigrated with his parents to Italy in 1907, living briefly in Rome and then in Asolo. He studied at the Armenian College Moorat Raphaël in Venice.
At his father's direction, Ohannés
, linguist, and historian. Hrand Nazariantz was a poet and translator whose candidacy was proposed for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. Gregorio Sciltian was a painter. Léon Gurekian was an architect, writer and political activist. His son Ohannés Gurekian was an architect, engineer, and alpinist. A prominent living writer and academic is Antonia Arslan from Padua. Laura Ephrikian is an actress.
Among the well known Italians with Armenian ancestry are the showman Paolo Kessisoglu (1969), whose grandfather, born "Keshishian",