Background
Reteos Berberian was born in Hasköy, a heavily populated Armenian district of Constantinople.
economist educationist journalist writer poet
Reteos Berberian was born in Hasköy, a heavily populated Armenian district of Constantinople.
He attended the local Nersesian school in 1866.
Inspired by the educational facilities of the Armenian community of Constantinople, Berberian aspired to open an educational institution himself. The curriculum and methodology of the school was his design and creation. After publishing his last work Tbrots Yev Tbrutiun (School and Schooling) in 1907, Berberian died the same year and was buried at the Bağlarbaşi Armenian cemetery in Üsküdar.