Howhannes Barseghjan

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Hovhannes Barseghjan ( Armenian Հովհաննես Բարսեղյան * 26. October 1920 in Mastara ; † 2. August 2014 ) was an Armenian linguist .

Life

Howhannes Chatschaturi Barseghjan was born in Mastara, Armenia, in October 1920. After graduating from high school (with a gold medal) in 1938, he was enrolled in the Faculty of Armenian Philology at Yerevan State University . In 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army and, after a year of training as an officer, he took part in the Second World War as commander of an infantry battalion until 1944 . After the end of the war, he graduated from the Faculty of Armenian Philology, where he was awarded a Dr. phil. received his doctorate .

In 1970 he was appointed to the chair of Armenian linguistics at the Yerevan State University. There he was dean of the Faculty of Armenian Philology from 1970 to 1981 . In 1981 he completed his habilitation with the monograph “The Syntax of the Modern Armenian Language”. From 1985 to 1990 he was Professor of History of the Armenian Language at the University of Yerevan. In 2003, together with T. Hakopian and St. Melick-Bachschian, he received the Armenian State Prize for the monumental work “Dictionary of Toponyms of Armenia and Neighboring Areas”.

Most recently, Hovhannes Barseghjan was Acting President and Scientific Secretary of the Armenian Language Council (formerly: Permanent Commission on Armenian Language and Terminology at the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Armenia) and President of the Joint Science Council and the Attestation Commission of the National Academy of Sciences and the State University of Yerevan for Armenian Philology.

Works (selection)

  • Theory of the inflection of verbs . Yerevan 1965
  • Dictionary of Spelling and Terminology of the Armenian Language . Yerevan 1973
  • Dictionary of toponyms of Armenia and neighboring areas . In collaboration with T. Hakopian and St. Melick-Bachschian. Yerevan 1985–1990
  • Examination of the questions of Armenian spelling in the classics of literature and the publications of the theorists of science . Yerevan 2006
personal data
SURNAME Barseghjan, Howhannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Հովհաննես Բարսեղյան (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Mastara , Armenia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2014