{"id":355,"date":"2019-02-11T17:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T17:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/?p=355"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:05:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:05:53","slug":"the-many-lives-of-calouste-gulbenkian-worlds-richest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/2019\/02\/11\/the-many-lives-of-calouste-gulbenkian-worlds-richest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, World&#8217;s Richest Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-355-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/Jon-Conlin-Mr-Five-Percent1.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/Jon-Conlin-Mr-Five-Percent1.m4a\">http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/Jon-Conlin-Mr-Five-Percent1.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At a ceremony in Lisbon last Thursday His Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, helped launch Jonathan Conlin&#8217;s new biography of the Anglo-Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955). Published in English by Profile Books as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/profilebooks.com\/mr-five-per-cent.html\">Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, World&#8217;s Richest Man<\/a><\/em>, Jonathan&#8217;s book coincides with a year of festivities marking the 150th anniversary of Gulbenkian&#8217;s birth. In addition to helping create familiar industry titans such as Shell and Total, Gulbenkian was also an art collector and philanthropist: the <a href=\"https:\/\/gulbenkian.pt\/uk-branch\/\">Gulbenkian Foundation<\/a> he endowed remains the world&#8217;s 36th wealthiest charitable foundation, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/gulbenkian.pt\/museu\/en\/\">Gulbenkian Museum<\/a> is one of the most popular tourist sites in Lisbon.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-356\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/190124-PRMRS-RO-0008-2989-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/190124-PRMRS-RO-0008-2989-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/190124-PRMRS-RO-0008-2989-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/190124-PRMRS-RO-0008-2989-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2019\/02\/190124-PRMRS-RO-0008-2989.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Conlin&#8217;s biography has sparked a national conversation in Portugal, where the Foundation has enjoyed a large profile since its establishment in 1956, by drawing attention to Gulbenkian&#8217;s original vision for his foundation &#8211; which Gulbenkian intended to benefit all of humanity, rather than any one nation. In his speech the President praised Conlin&#8217;s book for its style and the rigour of the research underpinning it.<\/p>\n<p>The book is the product of a five-year research project at the University of Southampton funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation, which saw Conlin working with original sources in ten different countries, written in nine different languages. <em>Mr Five Per Cent <\/em>has also received plaudits in UK, with all major newspapers carrying reviews; <em>The Economist <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/books-and-arts\/2019\/01\/05\/the-extraordinary-life-of-calouste-gulbenkian\">praised<\/a> it as &#8220;meticulous&#8221;. Further launch events will take place in London, Paris, Los Angeles, Boston and New York over the next three months, a testament to the broad ramifications of Gulbenkian&#8217;s career as well as the stature he enjoys among the Armenian diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to an interview with the author by Dr Crister Petley atop the page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profilebooks.com\/mr-five-per-cent.html\"><em><strong>Mr. Five Per Cent <\/strong><\/em><\/a>is available for purchase via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Mr-Five-Cent-Calouste-Gulbenkian-ebook\/dp\/B07F9YVZ5J\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1549368268&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=conlin+mr+five+per+cent\">Amazon<\/a> (including on Kindle devices), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/mr-five-per-cent\/jonathan-conlin\/9781788160421\">Waterstones<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton-books.com\/new-nonfiction\/\">Southampton Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A pre-production copy of Dr Conlin\u2019s 2016 article in <em>Turcica<\/em>, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.soton.ac.uk\/407712\/\">The amiras and the Ottoman Empire, 1880-1923: the case of the Gulbenkians<\/a>\u2019 is available via the University of Southampton under a Creative Common (attribution, non-commercial, no derivatives) license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; At a ceremony in Lisbon last Thursday His Excellency Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, helped launch Jonathan Conlin&#8217;s new biography of the Anglo-Armenian oil baron Calouste Gulbenkian (1869-1955). Published in English by Profile Books as Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, World&#8217;s Richest Man, Jonathan&#8217;s book coincides with a year of festivities marking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3768,"featured_media":356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[66,64,69,63,65,67,70],"class_list":["post-355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-research","tag-art","tag-capitalism","tag-energy","tag-oil","tag-portugal","tag-the-middle-east","tag-the-ottoman-empire","column","threecol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}