OHANJANYAN Hamo (Hamazasp, the party name is Mher Mheryan. Armenian:  Համո Oհանջանյան) was born in Akhalkalak in 1873, was a political and state figure. He was a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. Ohanjanyan graduated from the Tbilisi Russian Gymnasium, studied in the faculty of medicine at Moscow State University (though he was removed from the Univeristy because of participating in the student movements), graduated from Lausanne Medical Institute in 1899. During those years he conducted revolutionary party work among the Armenian students in Geneva and supported K. Mikaelyan. From 1920 he worked in Tiflis and Baku as a doctor. During the Russian Revolution in 1905 Ohanjanyan was responsible for ensuring the party's foreign ties with the Russian Revolutionary Parties. He defended the "Caucasus Project", which was against tsarist government and suggested to give up the national-liberation movement in Turkey. In 1908 the tsarist authorities arrested Ohanjanian, imprisoned and exiled him to Siberia (1913-15, Irkutsk Oblast). During the First World War he returned to Tbilisi and was a doctor in Caucasian front and also organized medical aid in Van. 

After the February Revolution of 1917 Ohanjanyan became a member of the Russian Assembly, then a member of the Transcaucasian Seim in 1918. He was the member of the Armenian National Council delegation that was sent to Germany (Berlin) in 1918. 

In November, 1919, he was the member of the delegation of the Republic of Armenia at the Paris Peace Conference.

In early 1920, he became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia (during A. Khatisyan government), then the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

The Treaty of Sèvres was signed during his government (1920), which de jure recognized the Republic of Armenia. After the establishment of the Soviet Power, Ohanjanyan was arrested and imprisoned. He was released during the February anti-Soviet uprising in 1921.  Later Ohanjanyan lived (1923) in Cairo, practicing medicine and social work. He was one of the founders of the National Cultural and Educational Association. Ohanjanyan wrote many scientific articles (“The last of the Mohicans”, 1925, “The Favorite One”, 1935, “The Asylum of Ideology during the Last Centuries”, 1941, “The Armenian State Man”, 1945, “Our Doctor”, 1946, etc.).

Hamo Ohanjanyan died in Cairo, in 1947.

Y. Gasparyan

Source-Encyclopedia “The Armenian Issue”, Yerevan, 1996. 

 

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