Hagop Kevorkian
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Hagop Kevorkian was an Armenian connoisseur of art, originally from Kayseri who graduated from the American Robert College in Istanbul and settled in New York in the late 19th century and helped America acquire a taste for Eastern artifacts.
The Brooklyn Art Museum's Kevorkian Gallery displays the Assyrian reliefs he donated to the institution. At the University of Pennsylvania a visiting lectureship attests to the joint excavations he undertook in Turkey during the 1930's. In New York, after Kevorkian's death, his foundation established the Kevorkian Chair of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
New York University has a center named after him that houses its Middle Eastern studies department and library.
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