Konstantin Sureni Khudaverdyan (1929,

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– 1999,

) was an

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n historian, Doctor of History, Professor (1974), academic of the International Academy of Sciences of Nature and Society. From 1988 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of

Armenian Encyclopedia The ''Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( hy, Հայկական սովետական հանրագիտարան, ''Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran''; ASE) publishing house was established in 1967 as a department of the Institute of History of the Armeni ...

Biography

Khudaverdyan finished the

Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; hy, Երևանի Պետական Համալսարան, ԵՊՀ, ''Yerevani Petakan Hamalsaran''), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919 ...

in 1951. From 1974 to 1988 he was the head of Modern public history department of Institute of history of

Armenian Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) ( hy, Հայաստանի Հանրապետության գիտությունների ազգային ակադեմիա, ՀՀ ԳԱԱ, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri az ...

. Khudaverdyan's works are dedicated to the Armenian culture, inter-ethnic relations,

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

and related issues. Khudaverdyan is an author of University textbooks, "History of Armenian People" research (8 volumes, co-author), "The Armenian Genocide under the light of decades" (co-author, in Russian, 1995) and other books, over 120 publications.

Sources

*Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, ed. by Konstantin Khudaverdyan, Vol. 2, pp. 539–540 {{DEFAULTSORT:Khudaverdyan, Konstantin 20th-century Armenian historians 1929 births 1999 deaths Yerevan State University alumni Writers from Yerevan