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M. Smbat Gabrielean

1856–1919

A physician, philologist, and writer, he moved between medicine, language study, and public advocacy. He is best known in English as a co-author of Bleeding Armenia, a firsthand-era account centered on the suffering of Armenians under Ottoman rule.

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Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam

by M. Smbat Gabrielean, Augustus Warner Williams

About the author

Born on December 15, 1856, in Kemaliye, M. Smbat Gabrielean was an Armenian intellectual whose work crossed several fields. Available sources describe him as both a physician and a philologist, showing the unusually broad education and interests that shaped his career.

He later studied at Columbia University and spent part of his life in the United States. English-language readers are most likely to encounter his name through Bleeding Armenia: Its History and Horrors under the Curse of Islam, which is listed by Project Gutenberg and helped carry Armenian testimony and historical memory to a wider audience.

Gabrielean died on June 3, 1919, in the United States. Although concise biographical information is limited in the sources available here, the record that remains suggests a life devoted to scholarship, public witness, and the preservation of Armenian experience.