author
George H. Filian
b. 1853
An Armenian minister and writer, he brought late-19th-century Armenia vividly to American readers through a mix of personal memory, history, and eyewitness testimony. His best-known book speaks with urgency and feeling, offering both a portrait of a people and an appeal for understanding.
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Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian
by George H. Filian
About the author
George H. Filian was an Armenian author and clergyman born in 1853. In Armenia and Her People; or, The Story of Armenia by an Armenian (1896), he wrote about Armenia’s history, customs, and suffering for an English-speaking audience, drawing in part on his own background and experience.
In the autobiographical sketch printed with that book, Filian says he was born on January 20, 1853, in a suburb of Antioch. The same work helped establish him as a public voice on Armenian life at a time when American readers were trying to understand reports of violence against Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
Surviving library records firmly connect him with Armenia and Her People, and contemporary references also identify him as Rev. George H. Filian. I wasn’t able to confirm a reliable portrait image from the sources I checked, so no profile image is included here.