Mesrovb Jacob Seth
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Armenian College (Kolkata)
The "Armenian College and Philantrophic Academy " of Kolkata is the commonly known and called "Armenian College, Calcutta". The Institution was founded by members of the Calcutta Armenian Community primarily to educate their own children. The "Armenian College" has played a distinguished and...
, Kolkata.
Biography
Mesrovb went to India for studies and was educated at the Armenian CollegeArmenian College (Kolkata)
The "Armenian College and Philantrophic Academy " of Kolkata is the commonly known and called "Armenian College, Calcutta". The Institution was founded by members of the Calcutta Armenian Community primarily to educate their own children. The "Armenian College" has played a distinguished and...
, Calcutta. He attained brilliant success as a scholar, especially of classical Armenian, his favourite subject, of which he was an ardent lover and noted exponent.
Although engaged in business, he considered this occupation a means of livelihood and devoted almost his entire attention to his literary activities. He displayed extraordinary aptitude for and interest in historical and antiqarian research and for many decades engaged himself energetically in the study of old manuscripts, letters, epitaphs and memorial tablets in churches and cemeteries throughout India and presenting these collectively and intelligently to his compatriots and to those interested in these studies.
The late Mesrovb J. Seth's endowments to his community in Calcutta particularly, and to India generally, are his various publications foremost amongst which "Armenians in India" is the result of a life long historical research and untiring laborious endeavours. The late Mr. Seth - a scholar and a champion of classical Armenian - spared himself no trouble or inconvenience to unearth interesting historical data of the activities of the Armenians in India for over two and a half centuries and has thus gained the true gratitude of Armenians in all parts of the world.