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

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian Diaspora, Armenian communities across the ...

origin who specialised in modern

Armenian history The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions historically and geographically considered ''Armenian''. Armenia is locate ...

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

Armenian revolutionary movement The Armenian national movement ( hy, Հայ ազգային-ազատագրական շարժում ''Hay azgayin-azatagrakan sharzhum'') included social, cultural, but primarily political and military movements that reached their height during Worl ...

Life

Ter Minassian was born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

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 the Sorbonne 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 University of Paris faculty Historians of Armenia French people of Armenian descent 20th-century French historians