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Calouste Gulbenkian
Armenian businessman, art collector and philanthropist (1869-1955)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 23 March 1869, 29 March 1869
- Died
- 20 July 1955
- Place of birth
- Üsküdar
- Place of death
- Lisbon
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Calouste
- Family name
- Gulbenkian
- Occupation
- businessperson, entrepreneur, engineer, diplomat, patron of the arts, adventurer, smuggler, art collector, writer
- Position held
- president
- birth name
- Գալուստ Սարգիս Կիւլպէնկեան
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 5
- educated at
- St. Joseph High School, King's College London
- employer
- National Bank of Turkey
- ethnic group
- Armenians
- family
- Rshtuni
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French, English, Ottoman Turkish, Armenian
- nickname
- Monsieur 5%
- notable work
- La Transcaucasie et la péninsule d'Apchéron
- owner of
- Q22343095, Flowers and Fruit, The Terrace, A Game of Horse and Rider, A Game of Hot Cockles, Fanciful View of the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Portrait of Anne Louis Goislard de Montsabert, Comte de Richbourg-le-Toureil, Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
- place of burial
- St Sarkis, Kensington
- pseudonym
- Monsieur 5%
- start of work period
- 1895
- topic's main category
- Category:Calouste Gulbenkian
- writing language
- French
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