Stepan Malkhasyants
Stepan Malkhasyants | |
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Armenian Academy of Sciences |
Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasiants (
Early life and education
Malkhasiants was born in
Following the completion of his studies, Malkhasiants taught Armenian at schools and became a regular contributor to periodicals and academic journals. Returning to the
Works
Malkhasiants took an active interest in the study of classical and medieval Armenian historiography prior to his graduation from Saint Petersburg State. In 1885, he published the first critical edition of the Universal History, written by the eleventh-century historian Stepanos Taronetsi. He later published several other critical texts by Armenian historians, including the primary histories written by Pavstos Buzand (1896), Sebeos (1899), Ghazar Parpetsi (1904) and Movses Khorenatsi (1940). Malkhasiants took a particular interest in Movses Khorenatsi and published over 50 works on the "Father of Armenian history" in the form of books, articles, and monographs.[4] Subsequent works also focused on the grammar of classical Armenian and ashkharabar (modern Armenian).[1] His Russian translation of the eighteenth-century Catholicos Simeon Yerevantsi's history work, Jambr, was published in 1958.[5]
In 1944-1945, Malkhasiants completed a monumental four-volume Armenian-language
Malkhasiants also translated some foreign works into Armenian. In addition to
He died in Yerevan at the age of 89 in 1947.
References
- ^ a b c (in Armenian) Durgarian, K. G. s.v. "Malkhasiants, Stepan Sargsi," Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7, p. 162.
- ^ a b c (in Armenian) Grigorian, A. V. "Stepan Malkhasiantsi tsnndyan 125-amyaki artiv" [On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Stepan Malkhasiants' Birthday], Patma-Banasirakan Handes 100 (1983): pp. 3-15.
- ^ Anon. Brief historical review Archived 2007-07-04 at the Wayback Machine. Yerevan State University. Accessed March 8, 2009.
- ^ (in Armenian) Hovhannisyan, Petros. Movses Khorenatsu matenagituyune [Bibliography of Movses Khorenatsi] (Yerevan: Yerevan State University Press, 1991), p. 84.
- ^ Hovhannisyan. Bibliography of Movses Khorenatsi, p. 84.
- ^ Anon. "Malkhasyants, Stepan Sarkisovich Archived 2007-05-20 at archive.today." Caucasian Knot. Accessed June 25, 2008.
Further reading
- (in Armenian) Badikyan, Khachik. "Ստեփան Մալխասյանց" ("Stepan Malkhasyants"). Azg. November 1, 2007.
- Garibyan A. "Armenia's Greatest Philologist: To the Centennial of S.S. Malkhasyants," Kommunist. December 26, 1957.
- (in Armenian) Malkhasyants, Stepan. Material for Armenian Intellectuals' Biographies and Bibliographies. Yerevan, 1962.
External links
- Armenian Explanatory Dictionary or also here (ՀԱՅԵՐԷՆ ԲԱՑԱՏՐԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆ) by Stepan Malkhasiants(about 130,000 entries). Yerevan, 1944. In 4 volumes. One of the definitive Armenian dictionaries. Written in classical Armenian orthography.