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CONFERENCE DEDICATED TO ARAM TER-GHEVONDYAN'S ANNIVERSARY TO LAUNCH IN NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
12:41, 31 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. International youth scientific
conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of prominent Armenian
historian-orientalist Aram Ter-Ghevondyan will be held in the National
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia on November 1-3. The
conference is held under the slogan "Armenia and Arab World: History
and Current Issues". The Press Service of the National Academy of
Sciences of the Republic of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that at
the course of the conference the participants will deliver reports
on the Armenian-Arab ties in the Middle Ages, history of Armenian
communities in the Arab countries, Arab-language media's reflections on
"the Armenian Question", etc.
Aram Ter-Ghevondyan was a preeminent Armenian historian and scholar who
specialized in the study of historical sources and medieval Armenia's
relations with the Islamic world and Oriental studies. His seminal
work, The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia, is an important study
on the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia. From 1981 until his death,
Ter-Ghevondyan headed the Institute of Oriental Studies at the
Armenian Academy of Sciences and he additionally held an honorary
doctorate from the University of Aleppo and was an associate member
of the Tiberian Academy of Rome.
Ter-Ghevondyan was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Armenian family which
had fled from the town of Marash in the Ottoman Empire during the
massacres of the Armenian Genocide. In the late 1940s, his family
repatriated to Soviet Armenia and there he was immediately admitted
to Yerevan State University. Ter-Ghevondyan graduated from the
university's department of philology of Oriental languages in 1954.
Pursuing higher studies, he was accepted to the Oriental Studies
Department at Leningrad State University. There, he met the renowned
Armenian scholars Hrachia Acharian and Joseph Orbeli. He was especially
fond of the guidance and advice Orbeli provided him with, as he
repeatedly remarked after he had completed his studies, "Once more,
fortune had smiled upon me, [for] my adviser was Academician Hovsep
[Joseph] Orbeli." He defended his dissertation, The Emirate of Dvin
from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, and was awarded his kandidat
nauk in 1958.
As a scholar who was fluent in Arabic, Ter-Ghevondyan had a profound
interest in the history of the medieval Arab caliphates andemirates.
>From 1958 to 1981, he worked at the Institute of History at the
Armenian Academy of Sciences (AAS) with a special emphasis in
philology, historiography and the study of historical sources. His
first significant work devoted to Bagratuni Armenia's relations
with the Islamic world was The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia
(Armenian:Ô±O~@Õ¡Õ¢Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Õ¶ Ô±Õ´Õ"O~@Õ¡ÕµÕ¸O~BÕ©ÕµÕ¸O~BÕ¶Õ¶Õ¥O~@Õ¨
Ô²Õ¡Õ£O~@Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸O~BÕ¶ÕµÕ¡O~A Õ~@Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶Õ¸O~BÕ´) and was published
in 1965. The book was highly praised and found to be of such great
importance that it was translated from Armenian into English by
American Byzantine scholar Nina Garsoïan, and later into Arabic by
Aleksan Keshishyan. Ter-Ghevondyan's doctoral work centered on the
political and cultural links between Armenians and Arabs during the
medieval era and he defended his dissertation once more and received
his doktor nauk in 1977. Titled Armenia and the Arab Caliphate,
Ter-Ghevondyan's work was published by the AAS in the same year.
In 1981, thanks to Ter-Ghevondyan's efforts, the institute of Oriental
Studies at the AAS was established and he was appointed to be the
inaugural holder of the chair for the study of primary sources. He
continued on with his research and in the same year, he completed
the translation of the excerpts of the work of the 13th-century
Arab chronicler Ibn al-Asir, as part of a series initiated by the
AAS to translate historical sources about Armenia and Armenians from
their original languages into Armenian. He translated fromclassical
to modern Armenian, wrote the introductions and commentaries on,
in 1982 and 1983 respectively, the works of Armenian historians
Ghevond (History) and Agatangeghos (History of Armenia). In 1983,
Ter-Ghevondyan became a professor at Yerevan State University and
taught the courses "Ancient and Medieval History of the Arab World"
and "An Introduction to Arabic Philology."
Due to his death in February 1988, many of Ter-Ghevondyan's works were
left unpublished. His monograph, Armenia in 6th to 8th Centuries,
was published posthumously in 1996. He was the author of over 100
articles and a regular contributor to the Arab-related entries in the
Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (1974-1987) and wrote numerous chapters
in the second and third volumes of the History of the Armenian People
(vol. ii, 1984; vol. iii, 1976).
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/738421/conference-dedicated-to-aram-ter-ghevondyan%E2%80%99s-anniversary-to-launch-in-national-academy-of-sciences.html
12:41, 31 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, ARMENPRESS. International youth scientific
conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of prominent Armenian
historian-orientalist Aram Ter-Ghevondyan will be held in the National
Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia on November 1-3. The
conference is held under the slogan "Armenia and Arab World: History
and Current Issues". The Press Service of the National Academy of
Sciences of the Republic of Armenia informed "Armenpress" that at
the course of the conference the participants will deliver reports
on the Armenian-Arab ties in the Middle Ages, history of Armenian
communities in the Arab countries, Arab-language media's reflections on
"the Armenian Question", etc.
Aram Ter-Ghevondyan was a preeminent Armenian historian and scholar who
specialized in the study of historical sources and medieval Armenia's
relations with the Islamic world and Oriental studies. His seminal
work, The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia, is an important study
on the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia. From 1981 until his death,
Ter-Ghevondyan headed the Institute of Oriental Studies at the
Armenian Academy of Sciences and he additionally held an honorary
doctorate from the University of Aleppo and was an associate member
of the Tiberian Academy of Rome.
Ter-Ghevondyan was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Armenian family which
had fled from the town of Marash in the Ottoman Empire during the
massacres of the Armenian Genocide. In the late 1940s, his family
repatriated to Soviet Armenia and there he was immediately admitted
to Yerevan State University. Ter-Ghevondyan graduated from the
university's department of philology of Oriental languages in 1954.
Pursuing higher studies, he was accepted to the Oriental Studies
Department at Leningrad State University. There, he met the renowned
Armenian scholars Hrachia Acharian and Joseph Orbeli. He was especially
fond of the guidance and advice Orbeli provided him with, as he
repeatedly remarked after he had completed his studies, "Once more,
fortune had smiled upon me, [for] my adviser was Academician Hovsep
[Joseph] Orbeli." He defended his dissertation, The Emirate of Dvin
from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, and was awarded his kandidat
nauk in 1958.
As a scholar who was fluent in Arabic, Ter-Ghevondyan had a profound
interest in the history of the medieval Arab caliphates andemirates.
>From 1958 to 1981, he worked at the Institute of History at the
Armenian Academy of Sciences (AAS) with a special emphasis in
philology, historiography and the study of historical sources. His
first significant work devoted to Bagratuni Armenia's relations
with the Islamic world was The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia
(Armenian:Ô±O~@Õ¡Õ¢Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Õ¶ Ô±Õ´Õ"O~@Õ¡ÕµÕ¸O~BÕ©ÕµÕ¸O~BÕ¶Õ¶Õ¥O~@Õ¨
Ô²Õ¡Õ£O~@Õ¡Õ¿Õ¸O~BÕ¶ÕµÕ¡O~A Õ~@Õ¡ÕµÕ¡Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶Õ¸O~BÕ´) and was published
in 1965. The book was highly praised and found to be of such great
importance that it was translated from Armenian into English by
American Byzantine scholar Nina Garsoïan, and later into Arabic by
Aleksan Keshishyan. Ter-Ghevondyan's doctoral work centered on the
political and cultural links between Armenians and Arabs during the
medieval era and he defended his dissertation once more and received
his doktor nauk in 1977. Titled Armenia and the Arab Caliphate,
Ter-Ghevondyan's work was published by the AAS in the same year.
In 1981, thanks to Ter-Ghevondyan's efforts, the institute of Oriental
Studies at the AAS was established and he was appointed to be the
inaugural holder of the chair for the study of primary sources. He
continued on with his research and in the same year, he completed
the translation of the excerpts of the work of the 13th-century
Arab chronicler Ibn al-Asir, as part of a series initiated by the
AAS to translate historical sources about Armenia and Armenians from
their original languages into Armenian. He translated fromclassical
to modern Armenian, wrote the introductions and commentaries on,
in 1982 and 1983 respectively, the works of Armenian historians
Ghevond (History) and Agatangeghos (History of Armenia). In 1983,
Ter-Ghevondyan became a professor at Yerevan State University and
taught the courses "Ancient and Medieval History of the Arab World"
and "An Introduction to Arabic Philology."
Due to his death in February 1988, many of Ter-Ghevondyan's works were
left unpublished. His monograph, Armenia in 6th to 8th Centuries,
was published posthumously in 1996. He was the author of over 100
articles and a regular contributor to the Arab-related entries in the
Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (1974-1987) and wrote numerous chapters
in the second and third volumes of the History of the Armenian People
(vol. ii, 1984; vol. iii, 1976).
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/738421/conference-dedicated-to-aram-ter-ghevondyan%E2%80%99s-anniversary-to-launch-in-national-academy-of-sciences.html