Calouste Gulbenkian

Calouste Gulbenkian was a British businessman and philanthropist of Armenian origin. He played a major role in making the petroleum reserves of the Middle East available to Western development and is credited with being the first person to exploit Iraqi oil. Gulbenkian travelled extensively and lived in a number of cities including Constantinople, London, Paris, and Lisbon.

Calouste Gulbenkian was born onMarch 1869 in Scutari , in the Ottoman Empire capital Constantinople . He received his early education at AramyanUncuyan, a local Armenian school. He then attended the Lyce SaintJoseph French school and continued his studies at Robert College. These studies were cut short when he moved to Marseilles at the age ofto perfect his French at a high school there.

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