1. Johannes Lepsius was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire.
12 Facts About Johannes Lepsius
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Johannes Lepsius initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work.
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Johannes Lepsius had to publish the report secretly because Turkey was an ally of the German Empire and the official military censorship soon forbade the publication because it feared that it would affront the strategically important Turkish ally.
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However Johannes Lepsius managed to distribute more than 20,000 copies of the report.
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The intellectual heritage of Johannes Lepsius was collected by the German church historian Hermann Goltz, who installed the "Johannes Lepsius Archive" in Halle upon Saale with Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg.
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Johannes Lepsius was the youngest son of the founder of Egyptology in Germany, the Egyptologist Carl Richard Lepsius and his wife Elisabeth Klein, a great-granddaughter of Friedrich Nicolai.
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Johannes Lepsius' parents grew up in a house with a great intellectual horizon.
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Johannes Lepsius came from the internationally known missionary family, the Wurttembergian Zellers.
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Johannes Lepsius, who was on the board of the Syrian Orphanage from 1884 to 1886, met many problems in Jerusalem due to massacres inflicted on the Christian population in 1860.
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Johannes Lepsius encouraged Josephina Zurcher to set up a clinic for the Armenians in Urfa in 1897.
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Johannes Lepsius campaigned for the plight of Armenians to such an extent that by January 1916, mere mention of his name excited a disturbance in the Reichstag and "Johannes Lepsius' very name had become a synecdoche for embarrassing information".
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Johannes Lepsius is known for his documentation of the Armenian genocide.