Seferyan Efendi information

Agop Seferyan
Born	1820 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Died	30 May 1899 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
Nationality	Armenian
Citizenship	Ottoman
Occupation(s)	Physician, diplomat, translator
Children	7 (2 dead at birth)
Awards	Crimean Medal, Order of the Medjidiye

Seferyan Efendi (Ottoman Turkish: سفرين افندی b. 1820 – d. 30 May 1899) was an Ottoman physician, diplomat and translator. He worked as a military surgeon during the Crimean War and the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78. In 1879, he was assigned to an envoy to Russia and worked to solve the disputes over the status of Armenians in Caucasus. In 1882, he worked as a scholar at the Imperial School of Medicine. His field of research included infectious diseases, military psychiatry and anatomy. He contributed to Turkish language by offering equivalents for Western medical terms. He was rewarded the Crimea Medal in 1855 and the Order of the Medjidie in 1856.