Career
He was born in Feodosiya, into a family of Armenian merchants. He received a scientific education at the monastery of Saint Mkhitarist, on San Lazaro Island in Venice. in 1848, he was appointed a director of the Armenian College Samuel Moorat in Paris, and subsequently founded the same Armenian college. His most important works are "Essay on the History of Russia" (in Armenian, Venice, 1836), "History of the Ottoman State" (also in Armenian, 2 volumes, Venice, 1841).
He was also one of the main staff of a large Armenian dictionary, "Auhera".