author
M. Smbat Gabrielean
1856–1919
Best remembered for helping bring the Armenian crisis before English-speaking readers, this Armenian writer and activist co-authored a stark early account of persecution and mass suffering under Ottoman rule.
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Bleeding Armenia: Its history and horrors under the curse of Islam
by Augustus Warner Williams, M. Smbat Gabrielean
About the author
M. Smbat Gabrielean (1856–1919) is chiefly known today for Bleeding Armenia: Its History and Horrors under the Curse of Islam, a work credited to Augustus Warner Williams and M. Smbat Gabrielean and preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.
Library records also connect him with the form Dr. M. S. Gabriel and identify him with the Armenian name Mkrtich Gabrielian. A later Armenian commemorative volume held by the National Library of Armenia describes him in deeply admiring terms and presents him as a figure whose life was closely bound up with the cause of Armenia and Armenian people.
Because easily accessible biographical sources on him are limited, many personal details remain hard to confirm from the material found here. What is clear is that his published work helped document Armenian suffering for a wider readership, giving him a lasting place among writers associated with the Armenian national cause.