Cyrille Toumanoff

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Cyrille Toumanoff ( Georgian კირილ თუმანოვი ; Russian Кириллъ Тумановъ ; born October 13, jul. / 26. October  1913 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 4 February 1997 in Rome ) was a Georgian - Russian - American historian and expert on Caucasus in the Middle Ages .

Life

Toumanoff's father Lev Tumanow was a Russian officer and came from the Armenian- Georgian princely family of the Tumanjan -Tumanishvili, princes of Satumanishvili and protonotaries at the Georgian court in Tbilisi . The ancestors immigrated to Georgia from the Kingdom of Lesser Armenia in the 15th century . The family was on the list of Georgian princes in the Treaty of Georgievsk on the sovereignty and patronage of the Russian Empire over Georgia in 1783, and in 1850 the family was admitted to the Russian nobility as Prince Tumanov . Toumanoff's mother, Jelisaweta Schdanowa, came from a Russian aristocratic family with ties to the Western European nobility. After the October Revolution of 1917, the family fled to their maternal grandparents in Astrakhan . In the beginning of the Russian Civil War , the father joined the White Movement , while the mother was shot by the Bolsheviks . After the defeat of the whites , the father and son emigrated to Paris . In 1928 they emigrated to the USA .

In preparation for a degree, Toumanoff attended the private Lenox School for Boys of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America in Lenox, Massachusetts . In 1931 he began studying at Harvard University . His teachers John Coddington and Robert P. Blake helped him to stay in Brussels with Armenian studies with Nicholas Adontz and then in Berlin with Georgian studies with Micheil Zereteli . During this time he converted to Roman Catholicism , which led to a separation from his Orthodox father. On his return he studied at Georgetown University in Washington, DC with a doctorate in 1943. There he taught until 1970, when he retired as professor emeritus for history.

Toumanoff left the United States and settled in Rome . His research focus was the genealogy of the princely families of the Christian Caucasus. In his investigations of Georgian families, he usually relied only on the Georgian Chronicles , neglecting the Latin , Byzantine , Armenian and Arabic sources, for which he was criticized.

Toumanoff was a professed knight with promess, high historical advisor and Grand Prior of Bohemia to the Sovereign Order of Malta .

Toumanoff was buried at the Chapel of the Knights of Malta on Campo Verano in Rome.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society for the Study of Caucasia: The Annual of the Society for the Study of Caucasia, volumes 6–7 . The Society, Chicago, Ill. 1997.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Robert H. Hewsen: In Memoriam: Cyril Toumanoff . In: Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies . tape 8 , 1995, p. 5-7 .
  3. ↑ a b A. Kazhdan : Toumanoff . In: Caucasia and Byzantium “Traditio” . tape 27 , 1971, p. 111-152 .
  4. ^ A b Stephen H. Rapp: Studies In Medieval Georgian Historiography: Early Texts And Eurasian Contexts . Peeters, 2003, ISBN 90-429-1318-5 , pp. 16 .
  5. ↑ Любимов С.В .: Титулованные роды Российской империи: Опыт подробного перечисления всех титулованных российских дворянских фамилий, с указанием происхождения каждой фамилии, а также времени получения титула и утверждения в нем . ФАИР-ПРЕСС, Moscow 2004, p. 368 .
  6. ↑ François Bauchpas: L'émigration blanche . Paris 1968.
  7. ^ David Braund: Georgia in Antiquity. A History of Colchis and Transcaucasion Iberia 550 BC – AD 562 . Paris 2002.
  8. ^ Christian Settipani : Continuités des élites à Byzance durant les siècles obscurs. Les princes caucasiens et l'Empire du VIe au IXe siècle . de Boccard, Paris 2006, ISBN 978-2-7018-0226-8 .
  9. ^ McHugh, Rosita: The Knights of Malta: 900 years of care . Irish Association of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes, and of Malta, 1996, ISBN 0-9525810-0-0 , p. xix .
personal data
SURNAME Toumanoff, Cyrille
ALTERNATIVE NAMES კირილ თუმანოვი (Georgian); Тумановъ, Кириллъ (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian-Russian-American historian and expert on the Caucasus in the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1997
Place of death Rome