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Reteos Berberian

Armenian educator (1848–1907)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ675465 ↗
Source-derived summary

Reteos Berberian, also known as Reteos Perperian (Armenian: Ռեթէոս Պէրպէրեան, 1848, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire – 1907, Üsküdar, Ottoman Empire), was an Ottoman Armenian educator, pedagogue, principal, writer, poet, and founder of the prestigious Armenian Berberian Varjaran school.

Editorial summary

“Reteos Berberian” enters the record as armenian educator (1848–1907). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Reteos, Berberian and Armenian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1848, 1907—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1848-10-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Reteos, Berberian and Armenian.
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Why this record matters

“Reteos Berberian” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Reteos, Berberian and Armenian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q675465. VIAF identifies the subject as 222130355. The Library of Congress control number is n92014728. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1848 and 1907.

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This entry incorporates text from “Reteos Berberian” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.