Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian (26 August 1929 – 11 February 2019) was a French historian of

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origin who specialised in modern

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, particularly the pre- and post-Soviet period of Armenian history, and the

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Life

Ter Minassian was born in

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in 1929. Her stateless Armenian parents were Levon Kévonian and Armenouhie Der-Garabédian, who taught her Armenian and refused to send her to a French school until she was seven. She would in time marry the son of Armenian statesman Ruben Ter-Minasian, Leon Ter Minassian, who was also a stateless Armenian. They had four children, including historian Taline Ter Minassian. She went to

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where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the and at Paris I University. In 1969 she went to work at the Sorbonne. After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the

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in 2015. Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019. In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian. Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian (born 1942), is also a specialist in Armenian history.

Works

* ''La Question Arménienne'' (Marseille, 1983) * ''Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887-1912)'' (Cambridge, Mass., 1984) * ''1918-1920-La République d’Arménie'' (Bruxelles, 1989, 2006) * ''Histoires croisées: diaspora, Arménie, Transcaucasie'' (Marseille, 1997) * ''Smyrne, la ville oubliée?: mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930'' (editions Autrement, 2006) * ''Nos terres d’enfance, l’Arménie des souvenirs, avec Houri Varjabédian'' (Marseille, 2010)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Minassian, Anahide Ter 1929 births 2019 deaths Academic staff of the University of Paris Historians of Armenia French people of Armenian descent 20th-century French historians