Hratschia Ajaryan

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Hratschia Ajarian
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Hratschia Ajarian (mostly Hrachia Ajarian , Armenian Հրաչեայ Աճառեան [ classical ] Hračʿeay Ačaṙean , Հրաչյա Աճառյան [ reformed ] Hračʿya Ačaṙyan ; * March 8th July / March 20, 1876 greg. In Samatya , Istanbul , Ottoman Empire ; † April 16, 1953 in Yerevan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ) was an Armenian linguist.

Ajarian was born the son of a shoemaker and went blind in the left eye in his childhood. In 1893, at the age of 17, he wrote a grammar on the language of the Lases. Ajarian graduated from Getronagan High School . He studied from 1898 at the University of Strasbourg with Heinrich Hübschmann and at the Sorbonne with Antoine Meillet , where he received his doctorate in 1909. Ajarian then worked as a teacher in Shushi , Tehran and at the Gevorkian seminar in Etschmiadzin .

As a survivor of the Armenian genocide , Hratschia Ajarian came to Yerevan in 1923, where he taught foreign languages, comparative grammar and the history of the Armenian language at the University of Yerevan as a full professor . He was suspected and imprisoned on September 29, 1937 in the course of the Stalinist Great Purges of “nationalism”. In 1939 he was released as innocent and taught again at the university.

Ajarian is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on Armenology , the Armenian language and the oriental languages. He was a member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences , the French Association of Linguists and the Oriental Institute in Prague. The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics is named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Homshetsi dialect , 1907
  • Classification des dialects arméniens . H. Champion, Paris 1909 (= dissertation)
  • Armenian Dialectal Dictionary (Հայերէն Գաւառական Բառարան), 1913, Tbilisi
  • Տաճկահայոց հարցի պատմությունը, The History of Turkish Armenians (from the starting to 1915), 1915, Nor Nakhichevan
  • Nor-Nakhijevan dialect , 1925
  • Maragha dialect , 1926
  • Dictionary of Armenian Root Words (ՀԱՅԵՐԷՆ ԱՐՄԱՏԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆ) (5,062 word roots). (Second publication: Yerevan 1971) The unambiguous study of the history and roots of the Armenian word origins in Armenian. Also includes explanations of every word used today.
    • First publications in 7 editions: 1926–1935
  • Հայոց անձնանունների բառարան (Hayots andznanunneri baṛaran / Dictionary of the Armenian First Names), Yerevan, Vol. 1–5, 1942–1962.
  • Common Gramatics of Armenian Language in Comparison of 562 languages . Vol. 1-6, 1952-1971.
  • Agulis dialect , 1936
  • Dialect of Constantinople , 1940
  • Armenian lexicology , 1941

literature

  • K. Chudawerdjan (Ed.): Concise Armenian Encyclopedia. Volume 1, Yerevan 1990, pp. 145-146.
  • Rouben Paul Adalian: Historical Dictionary of Armenia. 2nd edition, The Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, pp. 77-78.
  • Article Ачарян, Рачия Акопович. In: Большая советская энциклопедия .

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personal data
SURNAME Ajarianan, Hratschia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ajarian, Hratschia; Ajarian, Hrachia; Աճառեան, Հրաչեայ (classical Armenian); Ačaṙean, Hračʿeay; Աճառյան, Հրաչյա (Reformed Armenian); Ačaṙyan, Hračʿya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Samatya , Istanbul , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 1953
Place of death Yerevan