Krikor ( Grigore ) Pambuccian was born in Adana , a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire ( present Turkey ) . During the Armenian Genocide his family was forced to leave and ended up as stateless refugees , holders of the Nansen passport , going through Damascus , Cairo , Alexandria , Larnaca , to settle in Constanța . There he studied at the Deutsche Evangelische Volksschule and at the Mircea cel Bătrân High School , which he graduated as Valedictorian . He studied medicine at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy between 1936 and 1942 , was a battalion physician during World War II , and then climbed the ladders of an academic career to become , in 1973 , Professor of Pathology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Krikor Pambuccian