Gérard Dédéyan (4 February 1942,

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.) is a French professor of medieval history at the

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, a member of the

Armenian National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (NAS RA) (, ''Hayastani Hanrapetut’yan gitut’yunneri azgayin akademia'') is the Armenian national academy, functioning as the primary body that conducts research and coordinates activ ...

. and associate member of the

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. He studied

Classical Armenian Classical Armenian (, , ; meaning "literary anguage; also Old Armenian or Liturgical Armenian) is the oldest attested form of the Armenian language. It was first written down at the beginning of the 5th century, and most Armenian literature fro ...

with . In 1983, Dédéyan won the Prix Biguet of the

Académie Française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of tertiary education. The name traces back to Plato's school of philosophy, founded approximately 386 BC at Akademia, a sanctuary of Athena, the go ...

for his ''"Histoire des Arméniens''. Professor

Charles Dédéyan Charles Dédéyan (4 April 1910 – 21 June 2003) was a French-Armenian Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature. Biography Dédéyan defended his thesis at the Sorbonne (''Montaigne dans le Romantisme a ...

was his father.

Bibliography

* ''Les pouvoirs arméniens dans le Proche-Orient Méditerranéen (1068-1144)'' 5 vol., doctoral thesis, Paris 1, 1990 . * Smbat le Connétable, introduction, translation and notes by Gérard Dédéyan, ''La Chronique attribuée au connétable Smbat'', Geuthner, Paris, 1980 . * ''Les Arméniens, histoire d'une chrétienté'', Privat, Toulouse, 1990 . * ''et al.'', ''Arménie : 3000 ans d'histoire'', Éditions Faton, coll. « Les Dossiers d'archéologie », n° 177, Dijon, 1992 . * with

Jacques Le Goff Jacques Le Goff (; 1 January 1924 – 1 April 2014) was a French historian and prolific author specializing in the Middle Ages, particularly the 12th and 13th centuries. Le Goff championed the Annales School movement, which emphasizes long-term ...

, ''La Méditerranée au temps de saint Louis'', Aigues-Mortes colloquium, 25 and 26 April 1997, Éd. du SIVOM d'Aigues-Mortes, 2001 . * (dir.), ''Les Arméniens entre Grecs, Musulmans et Croisés : étude sur les pouvoirs arméniens dans le Proche-Orient méditerranéen (1068–1150)'', 2 vol., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbonne, 2003 . * with Isabelle Augé and Gérard Dédéyan (dir.), ''L'Église arménienne entre Grecs et Latins : fin XIe milieu Ve'', Geuthner, Paris, 2009 . * with Karam Rizk (dir.), ''Le comté de Tripoli : État multiculturel et multiconfessionnel, 1102–1289'', actes des journées d'études, Université Saint-Esprit, Kaslik, Liban, December 2002, Geuthner, Paris, 2010 . * Alphonse Cillière (presented by Gérard Dédéyan, Claire Mouradian and Yves Ternon), ''1895 — Massacres d'Arméniens'', Privat, coll. « Témoignages pour l'histoire », Toulouse, 2010 . * Gérard Dédéyan, Carol Iancu, (dir.), ''Du génocide des arméniens à la Shoah : Typologie des massacres du XXe siècle,'' Privat, coll. « Regards sur l'histoire » Toulouse, 2015, 640p. .

References

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Gérard DÉDÉYAN
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Histoire des Arméniens, 1982 (compte rendu)
on Persée {{DEFAULTSORT:Dedeyan, Gerard 20th-century French historians 21st-century French historians French people of Armenian descent Armenian studies scholars Historians of the Armenian genocide Writers from Nantes 1942 births Living people Academic staff of the University of Montpellier