Sako Arian
German historian Elke Hartmann’s
mother is Armenian. Elke has studied history and Middle Eastern/Islamic
Studies in Berlin specializing in modern Ottoman history. Her MA thesis
examined the German military mission to the Ottoman Empire during the
reign of Abdulhamid II, while her PhD. dissertation analyzes
conscription in the late Ottoman Empire in the context of modern state
and nation building. In 2010, with her husband, historian Vahé Tachjian, she established the Houshamadyan website.
From April to July, she will be a visiting professor at the Martin
Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany teaching the subject of
“Christian Minorities in the Ottoman Empire.”
