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CERL Thesaurus authority record for Ambroise Calfa
Associated with Ambroise Calfa
Citation
Consortium of European Research Libraries, Thesaurus authority record cnp01305860, Ambroise Calfa (1826–1906): Armenian-born writer and philologist, brother of Coren Calfa (Khoren Calfayan); former member of the Mekhitarist Congregation of Venice; name variants including Nar Bey, Galfayan, Guy de Lusignan (adopted from 1878). Aggregates BnF, DNB, and VIAF cataloguing data.
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Ambroise Calfa (1826–1906), Armenian-born writer, philologist, and lexicographer, was a former member of the Mekhitarist Congregation of Venice (expelled in 1855 following a protest over discriminatory admission policies). He co-founded the Collège National Arménien and the journal La colombe du Massis in Paris, was naturalized as a French citizen, and married Marie-Louise Joséphine Legoupil in Paris on 12 August 1863. He is documented as the brother of Khoren Nar Bey. From 1878 he also used the identity "Guy de Lusignan"; that identity claim is out of scope of this admission and is treated as `traditional` under the tier-1 audit, with adverse evidence from Manoukian (2025) preserved in the research register.