Johannes Lepsius: Armenians assistant and documentarian of their destruction.

On the 100th anniversary of the death of Johannes Lepsius (1858—1926), the presentation deals with his life and commitment against the Armenian genocide by the Ottoman Empire in 1915/16.

The Protestant theologian Johannes Lepsius is one of the prominent German representatives of humanitarianism in the late 19th and early 20th century. His writings on the Christian minority of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire impressively document the confrontation with moral policy issues and contemporary church developments against the horizon of homogenization movements against population groups in multi-ethnic states.

On the family background: Johannes Lepsius was the son of Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius (1810—1884) from Naumburg and grandson of the Naumburg district administrator and historian Carl Peter Lepsius (1775—1853). The presentation is a cooperation between the City of Naumburg and the Saale-Unstrut-Elster-Verein e.V.

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