Artashes Gabrieli Abeghyan (also Abeghian) ( hy, Արտաշես Գաբրիելի Աբեղյան 1 January 1878, Astabad, Nakhchivan – 13 March 1955,

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) was an

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and

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of the

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. He was the nephew of Armenian scholar Manuk Abeghyan, who was behind the

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in the 1920s. He graduated from Nersisian School. During the period of the

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(1918-1920), he served as a member of parliament. From 1926 to 1945, he was professor of Armenian Studies at the

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, and wrote prolifically in German on Armenology. During

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, Abeghyan headed the ''Armenischen Nationalen Gremiums'' (Armenian National Council) in Berlin, a collaborationist body created by Nazi Germany. He also wrote for the ANG's newspaper titled ''Azat Hayastan'' ("Free Armenia"). His home was destroyed by the Allied bombing of Berlin, after which he fled to Stuttgart. He settled in

in 1947, where he taught Armenian Studies at the

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until his death in 1955.

Works

* Vorfragen zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Altarmenischen Bibelübersetzungen * Geschichte Armeniens; ein Abriss * Ughghagrakan baṛagrkʻoyk * Pawghikeankʻ Biwzandakan kasrutʻean mēj ew merdzawor hertsuatsayin erewoytʻner Hayastani mēj * Kʻerovbē Patkanean Dorpatum * Hay mijnadarean aṛakner * Dorpati hay usanoghutʻiwně * Das armenische Volksepos * Armenien 1940 (neunzehnhundertvierzig)

References

* http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n99-56856/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Abeghyan, Artashes 1878 births 1955 deaths Armenian philologists 20th-century Armenian historians Armenian educators Armenian activists Armenian politicians Nersisian School alumni Soviet emigrants to Germany