Bagrat Ulubabyan

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Bagrat Ulubabyan
Armenian Academy of Sciences

Bagrat Arshaki Ulubabyan (Armenian: Բագրատ Արշակի Ուլուբաբյան; December 9, 1925 – November 19, 2001) was an Armenian writer and historian, known most prominently for his work on the histories of Nagorno-Karabakh and Artsakh.

Biography

Early life and education

Ulubabyan was born in the village of

Armenian Academy of Sciences.[1]

Works

Ulubabyan's first works were in the field of poetry. In 1952 and 1956, he completed two works, "Songs about Work and Peace" and "This Morning". He, however, shifted his focus and began writing short stories as well as epics: "

Sardarapat
.

Many of Ulubabyan's work concern the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1975, he published The Principality of Khachen, From the 10th to 16th centuries, a political and cultural history of the

Classical Armenian literature, he translated two works of the 5th-century Armenian chronicler Ghazar Parpetsi
, A History of Armenia and A Letter to Vahan Mamikonian, into Armenian in 1982.

Later life

In the late 1980s, with the beginning of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Ulubabyan took part in the demonstrations in Yerevan which called on Soviet authorities to turn Karabakh over to the control of Armenia.[2] During the 1960s, Ulubabyan had also been the author and one of thirteen signatories of a letter sent to Moscow, asking that the Soviet Union to consider Karabakh's incorporation into Armenia.[3]

On May 7, 2001, in honor of his work in regards to Armenian history, he was decorated with the Order of Saint

lung disease, Ulubabyan died on November 19, 2001.[4]

Endorsement, recognition and criticism

In modern academic world Bagrat Ulubabyan is acknowledged as a respected scholar in the field of

Robert Hewsen or Patrick Donabedian, have extensively used Ulubabyan's research on eastern lands of Armenia, directly or indirectly endorsing his statements and views.[6][7] In an essay on the kingdom of Artsakh, Hewsen also referred to Ulubabyan's Principality of Khachen as an "important work" and suggested it as a supplemental source to readers who are interested in learning more about the region and its medieval history.[8]

However, Russian historian

Kura River, and that despite the traditional point of view according to which the Udi people represent the descendants of medieval Albanian tribe of Utis, Ulubabyan claimed that the latter were not only Armenicized very early, but were almost originally Armenian.[9]

References

  1. ^
    Armenian Academy of Sciences
    , 1986, p. 212.
  2. ^ Excerpts of a speech delivered by Ulubabyan during Karabakh demonstrations Archived April 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia. Accessed May 20, 2008.
  3. ^ (in Armenian) Janyan, Bogdan. "Bagrat’s Widow." Shrjadarts. September 2004. № 4, p. 31.
  4. ^ (in French) Anon. "Mort de Bagrat Ouloubabian, un pionnier de la lutte pour le Karabagh Archived May 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine." Nouvelles d'Arménie. November 21, 2001. Retrieved July 5, 2008.
  5. ^ Among the many scholars currently working in the field of Caucasiology, and whose work has contributed to its emergence as a respected discipline in the modern academic world, we may mention Jahukyan, Diakonoff, Yuzbashian, Harut'yunyan, Melik'-Bakhshyan, Ulubabyan, Mouraviev, and Perikhanian in Russia and Caucasia; Bryer. Winfield, Dowsett, Thomson. Walker, and Sinclair in Great Britain; Mahé, Mouradian. Donabedian, Mutafian, Charachidze, and the Thierrys in France; Anan-ian, Bolognesi, and Alpago-Novella in Italy; Leloir and Van Esbroeck in Belgium; Assfalg in Germany; Weitenberg in the Netherlands; Schütz in Hungary; Petrowicz in Poland; Stone in Israel; and, in the United States, Garsoïan, Hovannisian, Bardakjian, Kouymjian. Matthews, Aronson. Bournoutian, Maksoudian, Russell, Cowe, Edwards, Suny, Papazian, Terian, Tölölyan, and, among the younger generation, Avdoyan, Marashlian, Der Mugrdechian, Dudwick, Evans, Merian, Taylor, Rapp, and many others too numerous to name here. To the preliminary studies of the pioneering specialists of the early part of this century, which, however dated, remain rich in value and are always worthy of consultation, the present generation of Caucasiologists has added a formidable library of scholarly achievement that includes dictionaries, grammars, bibliographies, histories, geographies, political analyses, literary criticism, anthropological research, demographic and epigraphic studies, collections of colophons, surveys of art and architecture, and, above all, editions and translations of fundamental texts.
    ISBN 0-226-33228-4
    .
  6. Hewsen, Robert H
    . Armenia: a Historical Atlas. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, p. 119
  7. ^ Chorbajian, Levon; Donabedian Patrick; Mutafian, Claude. The Caucasian Knot: The History and Geo-Politics of Nagorno-Karabagh. NJ: Zed Books, 1994, pp. 51–82
  8. ISBN 0-89130-642-0
    .
  9. ISBN 5-94628-118-6
    , pp. 226–228.
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