Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan

Hagop Vahram Çerçiyan (Armenian: Հակոբ Վահրամ Չերչիյան) was a 20th-century Ottoman-born Turkish-Armenian professor of mathematics, geography, and calligraphy at the Robert College of Istanbul.

[1] He travelled to the United States to study the Palmer Method, which by that time had gained widespread popularity.

[1][2][3] During the initial years of the Turkish Republic and under the reforms of Atatürk, a Latin-based alphabet was introduced to replace the Perso-Arabic script then in use.

Muslims were generally referred by their social or professional titles such as "Pasha", "Hoca", "Bey", "Hanım", "Efendi", or their names were complemented with that of their father.

[1][2] Many members of parliament, including some of Çerçiyan's former students, suggested that Atatürk needed a new signature for his name.