Koriun

Koriun (Armenian: Կորիւն, reformed spelling: Կորյուն; also transliterated as Koriwn, Koryun, Coriun) was the earliest Armenian-language author. Writing in the fifth century, his Life of Mashtots contains many details about the evangelization of Armenia and the invention of the Armenian alphabet by Mesrop Mashtots.^[1] Some Armenian and European scholars, such as G. Alishan, O. Torosyan, G. Fintigliyan, A. Sarukhan, G. Ter-Mkrtchyan (Miaban), S. Weber and others, have speculated that Koriun could have been Iberian-Armenian or Iberian (Georgian).

Date and place of his birth are not known. His name literally means "lion kid". He became one of the earliest disciples of Mesrop Mashtots while he was very young. According to Armenian and European scholars, Koriun was elevated to the rank of bishop of Iberia.

After the death of Mashtots, Koryun was tasked by Hovsep Hoghotsmetsi, one of the spiritual leaders at that time, to start writing Mesrop's biography. Now his work is known as "Varq Mashtotsi" (Life of Mashtots). He finished his work before the Avarayr battle in 451 and new political developments in the region. In the modern period it was translated into Russian, English, French and German.

References

Sources

• Winkler, Gabriele (1994). Koriwns Biographie des Mesrop Maštocʻ : Übersetzung und Kommentar. Rome: Pontificio istituto orientale.
  ISBN 9788872102985
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Further reading

• La Porta, Sergio (2018). "Koriwn". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.).
  ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8
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• The Life of Mashtots' by His Disciple Koriwn. — Oxford University Press, 2023

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