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Armenian Studies
Armenian studies or Armenology (, ) is a field of humanities covering Armenian history, language and culture. The emergence of modern Armenian studies is associated with the foundation of the Catholic Mechitarist order in the early 18th century. Until the early 20th century, Armenian studies were largely conducted by individual scholars in the Armenian communities of the Russian Empire (Moscow, Saint Petersburg, New Nakhichevan, Tiflis), Europe (Venice, Vienna, Paris, London, Berlin, Leipzig), Constantinople and Vagharshapat in Armenia. After the establishment of Soviet rule, Armenian studies, and sciences in general, were institutionalized in Armenia and put under direct control of the Academy of Sciences. Today, numerous research centers in many parts of the world specialize in Armenian studies. Notable scholars who have worked in the field of Armenian studies Early scholars * Maturin Veyssière La Croze (1661–1739), historian and orientalist *Lord Byron (1788–1824), Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humanities
Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature and language, as opposed to the study of religion, or "divinity". The study of the humanities was a key part of the secular curriculum in universities at the time. Today, the humanities are more frequently defined as any fields of study outside of natural sciences, social sciences, formal sciences (like mathematics), and applied sciences (or Professional development, professional training). They use methods that are primarily Critical theory, critical, speculative, or interpretative and have a significant historical element—as distinguished from the mainly Empirical method, empirical approaches of science."Humanity" 2.b, ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 3rd ed. (2003). The humanities include the academic study of philosophy, religion, histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Leist
Arthur Leist (8 July 1852 – 22 March 1927) was a German writer, journalist and translator of Georgian and Armenian literature. He was born and educated at Breslau. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), he got interested in the Caucasus. After his three visits to Georgia between 1884 and 1892, Leist decided to permanently settle in Tiflis. He regularly wrote on the history, ethnography and culture of Georgia, and translated many pieces of classic Georgian and Armenian literature. He compiled the first anthology of Georgian poetry in German in 1887 and, with the help of the Georgian writer Ilia Chavchavadze, published the complete German translation of the medieval Georgian epic poem ''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' by Shota Rustaveli Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashkharbek Kalantar
Ashkharbek Kalantar (; February 11, 1884 – June 1942) was an Armenian archaeologist and historian who played an important role in the founding of archaeology in Armenia. Born into the Armenian noble families of Loris-Melikov and Arghutians, he graduated St. Petersburg University in 1911 under Nicholas Marr. He was appointed a Fellow of the Archaeological Institute, of Imperial Russian Archaeological Society and the keeper of the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg. He was one of the founders of Yerevan State University. Ashkharbek Kalantar authored more than 80 scholarly articles. Early life Ashkharbek Kalantar was born in Ardvi (in the modern-day Lori Province of Armenia) on February 11, 1884. He received his early education at the Nersisian School in Tiflis, graduating from there in 1903. He continued his studies at the St. Petersburg University with Nicholas Marr as his teacher. He terminated his studies in 1911 to become a member of the archaeological society of the Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaroslav Dashkevych
Yaroslav Dashkevych () (1926–2010) was a Ukrainian historian, archaeographer, armenologist. He wrote over 1700 scientific and publicist works. Dashkevych was a representative of Hrushevsky school of history and a victim of Stalinist terror. He was a Doctor of Historical Sciences. Biography Dashkevych was born in Lviv in a family of war veterans. His father Roman Dashkevych was a lawyer and later a general-khorunzhyi (general-ensign) of the Ukrainian People's Army and his mother Olena Stepaniv was a teacher and later chotar (captain) of the Ukrainian Galician Army. After graduating the Lviv Academic Gymnasium in 1944, until 1949 Yaroslav Dashkevych studied at several institutes ( Lviv Medical University, Lviv University, and Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas). During his studying at Lviv University, in 1944–49 he was a librarian and bibliographer at the Stefanyk National Science Library. In December 1949 Dashkevych was arrested by the Soviet Ministry of State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grigor Ghapantsyan
Grigor Ghapantsyan (''Kapantsian'', , 1887–1957) was an Armenian historian, orientalist, linguist and philologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Honored Scientist of the Armenian SSR. Biography Ghapantsyan was born on February 17, 1887, in Ashtarak. He received primary education in Ashtarak, then studied in Saint Petersburg. In 1913 he graduated from the Department of Armenian-Georgian Philology of the Faculty of Oriental Languages of St. Petersburg University, returned to Armenia and up to 1918 conducted various courses in the field of the Armenian Studies at the Gevorgian Seminary in Echmiadzin. In May 1918 he took an active part in the Battle of Sardarapat. In 1921 he was invited to Yerevan State University Yerevan State University (YSU; , , ), also simply University of Yerevan, is the oldest continuously operating public university in Armenia. Founded in 1919, it is the largest university in the countr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Pierpont Blake
Robert Pierpont Blake (November 1, 1886 – May 9, 1950) was an American byzantinist and scholar of the Armenian and Georgian cultures. Biography Robert P. Blake was born in San Francisco on November 1, 1886. As a John Harvard Traveling Fellow, he chiefly studied and worked, between 1911 and 1918, in Russia where he mastered Russian and began his study of Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and Georgian. In 1918, on behalf of the Saint Petersburg State University, he arrived in Georgia to update the conflicting catalogues of the Tbilisi manuscripts and then to investigate various texts of the Bible. He became a professor of Tbilisi State University when it was founded early in 1918. He remained there and taught the Greek language and the Byzantine history until Sovietization of Georgian Democratic Republic. As a volunteer he fought Russian invaders near Tbilisi at Tabakhmela in February 1921. In 1921 he received an appointment from Harvard of which he later became a professor. He was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karapet Basmadjian
Karapet or Garabet or Garabed is a common Armenian given name. They may refer to: *a pre-Christian Armenian thunder-god, Karapet Religion *Karabet () or Garabed (Western Armenian), the Armenian name for '' prodromos'', referring to John the Baptist *St. Karapet, a church of the Noravank monastery * Saint Karapet Monastery, at Glak, a 4th-century Armenian monastery *Saint Karapet Monastery of Aprakunis, Armenian monastery in Nakhchivan *Karapet, a church of the Khtzkonk monastery near Ani * Saint Karapet Church, Tbilisi, Armenian church in Tbilisi, Georgia * St. Karapet's Church, Rostov-on-Don Given name Karapet * Karapet II of Armenia (died 1729), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (1726–1729) * Karapet Agadzhanian (1876–1955), Russian-Armenian psychiatrist, neurologist and neuroanatomist * Karapet Chalyan (born 1993), Armenian wrestler * Karapet Chobanyan (born 1927), Armenian scientist * Karapet Karapetyan (born 1982), also known as Karapet Papijan, Armenian-D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arakel Babakhanian
Arakel Grigori Babakhanian (; – 14 November 1932), commonly known by his pen name Leo (), was an Armenians, Armenian historian, writer, critic, and professor at Yerevan State University. He is best known for authoring a multi-volume work on the history of Armenia. Leo adopted a critical stance in examining some of the most important issues in History of Armenia, Armenian history, literature and contemporary problems of the early 20th century. Biography Leo was born on 14 April 1860 in the city of Shusha/Shushi in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Mountainous Karabakh, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. He was one of several children of Grigor Babakhanian, a tailor (later bellringer) of modest means. He graduated from the local school in Shusha in 1878. Due to the death of his father in 1879, Leo was unable to attend university and began working to support his family. He took up several jobs in Shusha and Baku as a notary's clerk, telegraph operator, and the manager ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Adontz
Nicholas Adontz (; ; January 10, 1871 – January 27, 1942) was an Armenians, Armenian historian, specialising in Byzantine studies, Byzantine and Armenian studies, and a philologist. Karen Yuzbashyan, Yuzbashyan, Karen. s.v. Adonts', Nikoghayos Gevorki. Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1974, vol. 1, p. 77. Adontz was the author of ''Armenia in the Period of Justinian'', a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of Medieval Armenia, early Medieval Armenia. Biography Early life Adontz was born Nikoghayos Ter-Avetikian () in the village of Brnakot in Sisian, which was then part of the Zangezur uezd of the Elizavetpol Governorate (present-day Syunik Province, Syunik). His family traced its roots to an eighteenth-century Armenian military figure and close ally of David Bek named Ter-Avetik. Yuzbashyan, Karen. "Nikoghayos Adonts'i gitakan zharangut'yune" [The intellectual legacy of Nikoghayos Adonts], ''Patma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrachia Adjarian
Hrachia Acharian (, Armenian orthography reform, reformed spelling: Հրաչյա Աճառյան; ; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenians, Armenian linguistics, linguist, lexicography, lexicographer, etymology, etymologist, and philology, philologist. An Armenians in Istanbul, Istanbul Armenian, Acharian studied at local Armenian schools and at the University of Paris, Sorbonne, under Antoine Meillet, and the University of Strasbourg, under Heinrich Hübschmann. He then taught in various Armenian communities in the Russian Empire and Iran before settling in the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1923, working at Yerevan State University until his death. A polyglot, Acharian compiled several major dictionaries, including the monumental ''Armenian Etymological Dictionary'', extensively studied Armenian dialects, compiled catalogs of Armenian manuscripts, and authored comprehensive studies on the history of Armenian language and Armenian alphabet, alphabet. Acharian i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manouk Abeghian
Manuk Khachaturi Abeghyan (, , alternatively Manouk Abeghian or Manuk Abeghian, 1865 – 26 September 1944) was an Armenian philologist, literary scholar, folklorist, lexicographer and linguist. He authored numerous scholarly works, including a comprehensive two-volume history of old Armenian literature titled (1944–1946), and a volume on Armenian folklore, the German version of which is titled . He worked extensively on the compilation and study of the Armenian national epic '' Daredevils of Sassoun''. He is also remembered as the main designer of the reformed Armenian orthography used in Armenia to this day. He was one of the first professors of Yerevan State University and was a founding member of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. The Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia is named in his honor. Early life Manuk Abeghyan was born on 1865 in the village of Tazakand (modern-day Babak, Azerbaijan) in the Nakhichevan uezd of the Eriva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
