Background
Krikor (Grigore) Pambuccian was born in Adana, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey).
Krikor (Grigore) Pambuccian was born in Adana, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey).
There he studied at the Deutsche Evangelische Volksschule and at the Mircea cel Bătrân High School, which he graduated as Valedictorian. He studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy between 1936 and 1942, was a battalion physician during World World War II, and then climbed the ladders of an academic career to become, in 1973, Professor of Pathology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy.
During the Armenian Genocide his family was forced to leave and ended up as stateless refugees, holders of the Nansen passport, going through Damascus, Cairo, Alexandria, Larnaca, to settle in Constanța. As Vice-President of the Armenian Apostolic Parish of Romania, he aimed at preserving, to the best of his ability, the religious patrimony of the Armenian community in Romania during a difficult time for both the Armenian community and Romania.