Manuk Abeghjan
Manuk Abeghjan ( Armenian Մանուկ Աբեղյան , traditionally Մանուկ Աբեղեան ; born March 15, 1865 in Astapat , Russian Empire , today's Azerbaijan ; † September 26, 1944 ) was an Armenian writer and scholar.
Life
Manuk Abeghjan was born on March 15, 1865 in Astapat in the former Russian Empire as the son of a farmer. In his youth he first attended the school of the monastery of Karmir Vank , before he went to the Gervorgi seminary in Echmiadzin in 1876 , where he graduated in 1885. He then taught for many years at the schools in Shuschi and Tbilisi . In 1893 he traveled to Europe and gave lectures at the universities of Jena , Leipzig , Berlin and Paris . In 1898 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the ancient Armenian teachings at the University of Jena .
After his return he taught at the Gervorgi seminary in Echmiadzin until 1914, before moving to Tbilisi and teaching there until 1918 at the Nersisian University. In 1921 he returned to Armenia and became a professor at the Yerevan State University . There he was also dean of the Faculty of History and Literature from 1923 to 1925. In 1935 he published a second doctoral thesis, this time in the field of Armenian philology.
Abeghjan was considered a leading scholar in various areas of Armenian research, for example in the field of Armenian mythology . Among other things, he documented various variants of the Armenian national epic about the hero David von Sasun and published them from 1936 together with Garo Melik-Ohanjanian in a three-volume complete work. In addition, he was one of the authors who published an integral version of the epic in 1939, i.e. a summary of all variants in one work. He also published critical editions of Armenian songs and medieval poems. One of his greatest works is also the two-volume work History of Ancient Armenian Literature (1944–1945), which, however, remained unfinished due to his death. Many of his studies were published in an eight-volume collection between 1966 and 1985 after his death.
Abeghjan had great influence on the reform of the Armenian spelling in 1922 . After Armenia was under Soviet rule, the new regime aimed to simplify Armenian spelling to replace the Armenian alphabet with the Latin script . In 1921 Abeghjan presented personal proposals as a report at a conference of the Ministry of Education. This report was used a year later by the Ministry for the reform of the spelling on March 4, 1922 without consulting Abeghjan. For this reason, the Reformed Armenian spelling is also called Abeghjan spelling .
Abeghjan died on September 26, 1944 at the age of 79. He was buried in the pottery cemetery in Yerevan .
The Institute of Literature of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences was named after him.
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- Manuk Abeghjan on the website of Milwaukee Armenian community (English)
- Manuk Abeghjan on the website of Yerevan State University (Armenian)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Tomb of Manuk Abeghjan on hush.am
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Abeghjan, Manuk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Abeghian, Manuk |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian writer and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Astapat , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1944 |