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Antranig Chalabian (1922, Kessab, Syria - April 12, 2011, Southfield, Michigan) was a medical illustrator, cartographer and historian, an author of several volumes on Armenian history. He is best known for his biography of General Andranik Ozanyan.[1]
He was born in 1922 in Kessab.[2] After graduating from the Armenian Evangelical School, he studied at Aleppo College. Then, in the summer of 1949, Chalabian moved to Beirut and took a position in the physiology department of the American University of Beirut. In 1977, Chalabian and his family immigrated to the Detroit, USA, where Chalabian worked as public relations director at the AGBU Alex Manoogian School.[3]
In 1984 he published his first historical book General Andranik and the Armenian Revolutionary Movement. The book became an instant best seller (75,000 copies sold only in Armenia). He donated the proceeds from that print to the Karabakh freedom fighters. In 1989 at the History Department of the Yerevan State University he was awarded a doctorate in history. The book was later translated into English, Turkish and Spanish. He is also the author of Revolutionary Figures (1991)[4], Armenia After Coming of Islam and Dro.
Chalabian received numerous accolades and recognition. The mayor of Southfield designated in 2005 a day as Dr. Antranig Chalabian Day in recognition of his goodwill ambassadorship of the city through his readers worldwide.[5] He regularly contributed articles to the Spurk Journal, Nayiri, Chanasser, Armenian Mirror-Spectator and Andranikological Review papers.