Karapet Utudjian

In 1848, he traveled to Paris and studied at the École supérieure de commerce, where he specialized in economics and earned a diploma in 1851.

During his time in Paris, he also attended lectures by the critic Saint-Marc Girardin, the political economist Michel Chevalier and the historian Jules Michelet at the Sorbonne and the Collège de France.

He served as its editor uninterrupted for 32 years until 1884 when, after having lost an eye to disease, he was forced to cease all work in the realms of writing and publishing.

Among these translations figure schoolbooks such as Joseph Garnier’s Éléments de l’économie politique (1873), as well as popular European literary and political works: Silvio Pellico’s Le mie prigioni (1862), Oliver Goldsmith’s The vicar of Wakefield (1863) and Eugène Sue’s eight-volume Le Juif errant (1867-1869).

After leaving his editorship, Utujian worked as the superintendent of schools affiliated with the Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Constantinople from 1885 to 1895.