{{Short description|Doctor for refugees from the Armenian genocide}}
{{Infobox person | name = Moses Minas Housepian | image = Dr Moses Housepian, 1916.jpg | caption = Housepian (1916) | native_name = Մովսես Մինասի Հովսեփյան | native_name_lang = ar | other_names = Movses Housepian | birth_date = 1876 | birth_place = Kessab, Cilicia, Ottoman Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1952|12|11|1876}} | death_place = New York City, New York | alma_mater = Long Island College Hospital | known_for = physician, humanitarian aid worker | spouse = Makrouhie Ashjian | children = Edgar Housepian,<br> Marjorie Housepian Dobkin }} '''Moses Minas Housepian''' (Armenian: {{lang|ar|Մովսես Մինասի Հովսեփյան}}; 1876 – December 11, 1952) was a Syrian-born Armenian-American physician and humanitarian aid worker.
== Biography == Moses Minas Housepian was born in 1876 in Kessab, Cilicia, Ottoman Empire (now Syria).<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7LZMAQAAIAAJ|title=New York State Journal of Medicine|date=1953|publisher=Medical Society of the State of New York|pages=219|language=en}}</ref> He escaped the Hamidian massacres in his youth. He graduated from Long Island College Hospital (LICH) in 1905.<ref name=":1" />
He later headed a humanitarian medical mission in Russian Armenia from 1916 to 1918 treating refugees from the Armenian genocide.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=2011-05-14|title=Honoring NY-Area Early Writers and Intellectuals of the Mirror-Spectator|url=https://mirrorspectator.com/2011/05/14/honoring-ny-area-early-writers-and-intellectuals-of-the-mirror-spectator/|access-date=2021-05-13|website=The Armenian Mirror-Spectator|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/|title = Humble FAR Honoree Housepian Follows in Parents' Footsteps|date = 16 January 2010}}</ref> He is credited with stopping the spread of a typhus epidemic and was known as the "Angel of Mercy", and as "Dr. Purgich" (English: ''"Dr. Saviour"'').<ref>''Dr. M. M. Housepian: A Tribute to His Memory'' (pamphlet published in 1954 by the Dr. M. M. Housepian Memorial Fund Committee and printed by the Gotchnag Press in New York City), p. 6: "During the First World War, news of the deportations and massacres in Turkey led Dr. Housepian to organize a volunteer group and leave for Armenia. There he found forty thousand refugees... A typhus epidemic had created urgent need for medical care... Archbishop Tirayre of [The Armenian Church's headquarters at] Etchmiadzin has observed that Dr. Housepian's efforts were directly responsible for checking the spread of the epidemic... many of his grateful patients referred to him as "Dr. Purgitch" (Dr. Savior).</ref>
Housepian was active in the Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, whose chapter in New York City was posthumously named for him.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mirrorspectator.com/2015/03/12/in-memory-of-dr-edgar-housepian|title = In Memory of Dr. Edgar Housepian|date = 12 March 2015}}</ref> His wife, Makrouhie Housepian (née Ashjian), was active in the Armenian General Benevolent Union and other Armenian causes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mirrorspectator.com/2010/01/16/humble-far-honoree-housepian-follows-in-parents-footsteps/|title = Humble FAR Honoree Housepian Follows in Parents' Footsteps|date = 16 January 2010}}</ref> Moses and Makrouhie Housepian were the parents of Marjorie Housepian Dobkin and Edgar Housepian.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ragmamoul.net/en/news-in-english/2014/11/22/in-memoriam-dr-edgar-housepian-1928-2014/|title=In Memoriam: Dr. Edgar Housepian (1928-2014)|date=November 22, 2014}}</ref>
Housepian died on December 11, 1952, in New York City.<ref name=":0" />
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