Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan

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Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan (* 1955 ) is an Armenian-German literary scholar and orientalist. Since 2010 she has been DAAD professor for Armenology at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Drost-Abgarjan studied Armenian Philology at the Yerevan State University from 1972 to 1977 . From 1977 to 1980 she was a research assistant at the Institute for Literature of the Armenian Academy of Sciences . From 1978 to 1985 she completed a doctoral degree with a research grant at the Institute for World Literature of the then Academy of Sciences of the USSR at the Department of Ancient Literature under Sergei Aveverintsev .

In 1984 and 1985 she completed the preliminary defense of her dissertation in Moscow and finally did her doctorate at the State University of Tbilisi with Akaki W. Uruschadze on the subject of "The comparative poetics of the hymnographic genres in Greek-Byzantine and ancient Armenian literature". From 1985 Drost-Abgarjan moved to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg : there she was initially a research assistant and then an assistant (C1) and - until 2010 - senior assistant (C2) at the Oriental Institute of the MLU (seminar Christian Orient and Byzantium). In 2003 she qualified as a professor in Halle with a work on the Armenian hymnarium Sharaknoz for the subject areas “ Science of the Christian Orient with special consideration of Armenology”. Since September 2010 she has been DAAD visiting professor for Armenology at the Christian Orient seminar at the Oriental Institute of the MLU. She is also acting director of the MESROP Center for Armenian Studies.

Research priorities

  • Armenian language (Classical, Middle and Modern Armenian)
  • Armenian literature in the context of the languages ​​and literatures of the Christian Orient (hymnography, translation literature, commentary literature, historiography)
  • Comparative studies
  • Byzantine-Armenian literary relations
  • History of science (Armenology, Armenian-German academic relations)

Publications / Editorships (selection)

  • Walter Beltz , Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan (ed.): Cudik halleakan: small collection of armenological studies , Institute for Oriental Studies of the MLU, Halle (Saale), 1995, Hallesche Contributions to Oriental Studies Volume 20 ( online ).
  • (Co-editor): Language, myths, mythicisms: Festschrift for Walter Beltz for his 65th birthday on April 25, 2000 , 3 volumes, Halle (Saale): Inst. For Oriental Studies, Hallesche Contributions to Oriental Studies , Volume 32.
  • A. Drost-Abgarjan: The Armenian Canons of Astowacaytnowtiwn. Philological and literary research on Saraknoc , Habil.-Schrift, Halle an der Saale 2003.
  • Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, Hermann Goltz (Hrsg.): Armenologie in Deutschland: Contributions to the First German Armenologist Day , Lit-Verlag, Münster 2005, series: Studies on oriental church history, Volume 35, ISBN 3-8258-8610-7 .
  • Anna Briskina-Müller, Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, Axel Meißner (eds.): Logos in dialogue: In search of orthodoxy. Commemorative publication for Hermann Goltz (1946–2010) , LIT Verlag, Münster 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-11027-5 .
  • Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, Bálint Kovács, Tibor Martí: Catalog of the Armenian Library in Elisabethopolis , Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag Leipzig 2011, series: Armenian cultural heritage in the Carpathian basin; 1, ISBN 978-3-86583-591-8 (Leipzig)
  • Jürgen Tubach, Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan, Guliko S. Vashalomidze (eds.): Longing for Hell? : Concepts of hell and the underworld in the Orient and Occident: Contributions to the Leucorea Colloquium 2010 , Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2013, Studies in Oriental Religions Volume 63, ISBN 978-3-447-06713-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see homepage of Drost-Abgarjan
personal data
SURNAME Drost-Abgarjan, Armenuhi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Armenian philologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955