Nicholas Adontz
Nicholas Adontz | |
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| Born | January 10, 1871 |
| Died | January 27, 1942 (aged 71) Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | -Histoire d'Arménie (1946) -Armenia in the Period of Justinian: the Political Conditions based on the Naxarar System (1908) |
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| Fields | Byzantine studies, Armenian studies |
| Institutions | Russian Academy of Sciences |
Nicholas Adontz (
Biography
Early life
Adontz was born Nikoghayos Ter-Avetikian (
Adontz was accepted to the
Graduate studies
Adontz wrote and defended his thesis on "Armenia in the Period of Justinian" in 1908. Adontz was appointed as the private-assistant professor at the University of St. Petersburg in 1909. He received his doctorate and the title of professor after defending his dissertation, entitled "Dionysius of Thrace and his Armenian Commentaries," in 1916. In that same year, with archaeologist Ashkharbek Kalantar, he participated in the second Van archaeological expedition organized by Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences. One year later, he was appointed honorary trustee and professor at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow.[1]
Later life
In 1920, Adontz left Russia and moved to London and then Paris. Adontz was invited to deliver lectures at the
Academic work
Adontz left more than 80 monographs on the history and literature of Medieval Armenia, Armenian-Byzantine relations, Armenian-Greek philology, mythology, religion, linguistics in the Armenian, Russian and French languages.
In a stark departure from his studies on ancient and medieval Armenian history, Adontz took a vested interest in the history of the
Selected publications
- (in French) Samuel l'Armenien, Roi des Bulgares. Bruxelles, Palais des academies, 1938, 63 p. Published also in: Etudes Armeno-Byzantines. Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Distributor: Livraria Bertrand. Lisbonne, 1965.
- Histoire d'Arménie, les origines du X-e siècle au vie (av. J.C.). Préf. de René Grousset. Paris, 1946.
- Armenia in the Period of Justinian: the Political Conditions Based on the Naxarar System. Translated with partial revisions, a bibliographical note, and appendices by Nina G. Garsoïan. Lisbon, 1970.
- (in French) Denys de Thrace et les commentateurs arméniens. Lisbon, 1970.
- (in Armenian) Antsano't' e'jer Masht'ots'i ew nra ashakertneri keank'its' e"st o'tar aghbiwrneri [Unknown Pages from the Life of Mashtots and His Students according to Foreign Sources]. 1925.
- Towards the Solution to the Armenian Question. London, 1920.
Notes
- ^ Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1974, vol. 1, p. 77.
- ^ a b c (in Armenian) Yuzbashyan, Karen. "Nikoghayos Adonts'i gitakan zharangut'yune" [The intellectual legacy of Nikoghayos Adonts], Patma-Banasirakan Handes 4 (1962): pp. 115-128.
- ^ a b c (in Armenian) Diloyan, Valter. s.v "Adontz, Nikoghayos," Encyclopedia of the Armenian Question. Yerevan: Yerevan State University Press, 1996, p. 10.
Further reading
- Adalian, Rouben. "Nicholas Adontz: The Quest for a Rational History," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1987.
- Armenian Review39 (1986): pp. 55–80.
External links
- Works by or about Nicholas Adontz at Internet Archive
- (in Armenian) A detailed biography by ArmenianHouse.
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