Printing Office :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Printing Office 1822 — 1833 yy․

NKR / Shushi / Shushi

Historical Introduction
1822 y․

Printing-Office of Protestant Preachers (ca. 1822 to 1833). The second printing-house throughout the territory of Armenia opened in Shushi around 1822 by August Dittrich and Zaremba representing the Evangelical Mission of Bazel.

Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 4.

1830 y․

In 1830 E. Smith and H. Dwight attested that the Protestant preachers of Shushi had a printing-office functioning under Mr. Dittrich’s supervision. The Armenian-language works issued there were obligatorily subjected to censorship at first by Archbishop Nerses and then by Echmiatzin Synod: “The most important work which Mr. Dittrich has attempted, and the one from which the most good is anticipated, is a translation of the New Testament into the vulgar dialect of the Armenians. ...The operations of the press in every department, are in fact now entirely stopped by the inimical opposition of the censors. Thus is the Armenian hierarchy, by the aid of Russian laws, exercising, with the spirit and rigor of papacy...”

Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H. G. O. Dwight in Armenia..., pp. 318-320.
Abrahamian Emma, Printing-Houses Throughout the Armenian Homeland, in: "Vardzk", 2012, N 6, p. 5.

This press is known to have issued 22 books.