Johannes Lepsius (15 December 1858, Potsdam, Germany – 3 February 1926, Meran, Italy) was a German Protestant missionary, Orientalist, and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work. Lepsius was one of the founders and the first chairman of the German–Armenian Society.
During World War I he published his work "Bericht über die Lage des armenischen Volkes in der Türkei" ("Report on the situation of the Armenian People in Turkey") in which he meticulously documented and condemned the Armenian genocide. A second edition entitled "Der Todesgang des armenischen Volkes" ("The way to death of the Armenian people") included an interview with Enver Pasha, one of the chief architects of the genocide. 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. However Lepsius managed to distribute more than 20,000 copies of the report.
In his novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh ("Die vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh") the Austrian-Jewish author Franz Werfel portrayed Lepsius as a "guardian angel of the Armenians". 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. Several documents and journals from the archive were published as microfiche.
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also agreed to hear. Lepsius testified that the deportation was ordered by the "Young Turk Committee", including Talaat Pasha. Lepsius quoted from an original...
Trial] (PDF). JohannesLepsius – Eine deutsche Ausnahme: Der Völkermord an den Armeniern, Humanitarismus und Menschenrechte [JohannesLepsius — A German...
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distress of the survivors during and after the genocide, among them JohannesLepsius, Franz Werfel, Armin T. Wegner, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Fridtjof Nansen...
and Armenian Genocide survivor Grigoris Balakian, German activist JohannesLepsius, and German Army general Otto Liman von Sanders, who had been a field...
Rolf Hosfeld, Lepsius House's academic director ... Potsdam's mayor, Jann Jakobs (SPD), said that ... the monument reaffirms the Lepsius House as a vital...
are from clergymen and activists, including the German missionary JohannesLepsius, and Stanley Hopkins of the Near East Relief. Germany and Austria-Hungary...
orphans, from 1903 until her death in Syria in 1935. She was a member of JohannesLepsius' Deutsche Orient-Mission (German Orient Mission) and assumed responsibility...
Armin T. Wegner, Hedvig Büll, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Franz Werfel, JohannesLepsius, James Bryce, Anatole France, Giacomo Gorrini, Benedict XV, Fridtjof...
by historians have ranged from 80,000 to 300,000. The German pastor JohannesLepsius meticulously collected data on the destruction and in his calculations...
supplies to Musa Dagh, purchased with funds collected by Lepsius in Germany. The episode ends with Lepsius witnessing Enver and Talaat being driven past in a...
Nicolai. His younger brother JohannesLepsius became a Protestant theologian, humanist and orientalist. Reinhold Lepsius was stylistically affiliated...
"To serve Armenia is to serve civilization." Protestant missionary JohannesLepsius (1858–1926) is described as the "German who knew the most about the...
profiles Franz Werfel, Armin Wegner, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, and JohannesLepsius, who fought to inform the public about the Armenian plight and help...
will reach their destination alive." Twenty days later, missionary JohannesLepsius told the Foreign Office that the systematic deportations were obviously...
Pasha, Balakian appeared as a witness for the defendant together with JohannesLepsius. Soghomon Tehlirian was ultimately acquitted. Balakian became prelate...
Kartvelologist Arthur Leist and the head of the Oriental mission in Potsdam, JohannesLepsius, through the German ambassador to Georgia. Grigol was able to study...
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journalist and author. Gust examined the publication by Protestant minister JohannesLepsius of documents of the German foreign office related to Armenian genocide...
Patriarchen, Ausgräber und Pilger) LIT Verlag Münster 2000, P. 306 JohannesLepsius, Armenien und Europa. Eine Anklageschrift, Verlag der Akademischen...
the documents. Witnesses and testimonies of the Armenian genocide JohannesLepsius Dadrian, Vahakn (1986). "The Naim-Andonian Documents on the World War...
2021. Retrieved 13 December 2021. Hosfeld, Rolf (2 September 2013). JohannesLepsius - eine deutsche Ausnahme: Der Völkermord an den Armeniern, Humanitarismus...
the Protestant missionary and close ally of the Armenian people, Dr. JohannesLepsius, Pastor Shahveledian traveled throughout Switzerland, Germany, and...
d’Afrique Noire. Lukas, Johannes 1951-52. Umrisse einer ostsaharanischen Sprachgruppe. Afrika und Übersee, 36: 3-7. Lukas, Johannes 1953. Die Sprache der...
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