Vartan Gregorian, transformative civic leader and tireless educator, dies at 87
By Susan H. Greenberg The Washington Post,Updated April 16, 2021, 2 hours ago
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Vartan Gregorian in New York City in October 2020Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Aurora Humanitarian Prize
Vartan Gregorian, the Iranian-born historian and educator who transformed the New York Public Library from a broke and derelict institution into a thriving center of culture and learning and who pushed tirelessly for improving access to knowledge through his leadership of Brown University and the grantmaking Carnegie Corp., died April 15 in New York City. He was 87.
The Carnegie Corp. announced his death in a statement, which said he had been hospitalized for testing related to stomach pain.
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April 16, 2021
It is with deep sorrow that CNS observes the passing of Dr. Vartan Gregorian, an extraordinary educator, scholar, and visionary. As president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, no one was a more steadfast friend and supporter of the field of international peace and security and MIIS.
Dr. Vartan Gregorian
Dr. Gregorian was a true renaissance man, interested in and knowledgeable about literature, history, politics, higher education, immigration, and global affairs. He devoted his life to serving the public good and had an enormous and positive impact on all those he touched.
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Vartan Gregorian in 2009. A brilliant historian and educator, he led Brown University and the Carnegie Corporation, but his crowning achievement was the revival of the New York Public Library. Credit.John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
April 16, 2021, 3:33 p.m. ET
Vartan Gregorian, the ebullient Armenian immigrant who climbed to pinnacles of academic and philanthropic achievement but took a detour in the 1980s to restore a fading New York Public Library to its place at the heart of American intellectual life, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 87.
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1of3FILE - In this June 23, 2004, file photo, President Bush presents Vartan Gregorian with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation s highest civil award, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, died Thursday, April 15, 2021, after being hospitalized for stomach pain. He was 87.SUSAN WALSH/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - In this Nov. 5, 1998, file photo, President and Mrs. Clinton flank Vartan Gregorian, an educator, administrator and philanthropist from New York, after presenting him with a 1998 National Humanities Medal during a ceremony at the White House in Washington. Gregorian, the noted scholar and philanthropic leader who has led the Carnegie Corporation of New York since 1997, di