Johannes Lepsius ( 15 December 1858 , Potsdam , Germany – 3 February 1926 , Meran , Italy ) was a German Protestant missionary , Orientalist , and humanist with a special interest in trying to prevent the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire . He initially studied mathematics and philosophy in Munich and a PhD in 1880 with an already award-winning work . Lepsius was one of the founders and the first chairman of the German – Armenian Society
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Johannes Lepsius