Theo van Lint

Theo van Lint, in the Sanahin Monastery , gallery by Grigor Magistros, 2013

Theo Maarten van Lint (born June 15, 1957 in Delft ) is a Dutch Armenologist and Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University .

biography

Van Lint graduated from high school in The Hague in 1975 and then studied Slavic and German at the University of Leiden . In 1983 he spent two semesters at Leningrad University . After his final exam, he continued his studies in Leiden and completed a degree in comparative linguistics , during which he specialized in older Armenian literature. He spent the academic year 1989/90 at the University of Yerevan , and also did research in the Matenadaran , the central archive for old Armenian manuscripts. In 1996 he was in Leiden with the work Kostandin of Erznka , an Armenian religious poet of the XIIIth-XIVth century. Armenian text with translation and commentary cum laude to Dr. phil. PhD. His doctoral supervisor was the first professor of Armenian studies in the Netherlands, Jos Weitenberg .

He spent the academic year 1997/98 as a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study . Van Lint then carried out various postdoc projects before being appointed Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University in 2002. He is a member of Pembroke College .

Scientific work

Theo van Lint's scientific work focuses on Armenian poetry and Armenian literature of the Middle Ages , but he has also presented research on early modern and modern Armenian literature. In his teaching he covers all areas of Armenology from language courses to culture and history. He has also given guest lectures and seminars on these topics at numerous European and North American universities. Van Lint is a regular visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

In addition, Van Lint is associated with a number of Armenian scientific organizations. Among other things, he is secretary of the AIEA (Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes), advisor to the Armenian Institute (London), vice-chairman of the Mahfouz Foundation and a member of the Society of Armenian Studies.

Van Lint is also active as a translator of poetry and has translated poetry from Estonian into Dutch , among other things .

Fonts (selection)

• "Վաղ շրջանի պատմագրությունը Գրիգոր Մագիստրոսի ստեղծագործություններում" (Historiography of the Early Period in Grigor Magistros's Works), Բանբեր Մնատեբադարանի 21 (2014), 97-103.

• "Armenian Merchant Patronage of New Julfa's Sacred Spaces", in Mohammad Gharipour (ed.), Sacred Precincts. The Religious Architecture of Non Muslim Communities across the Islamic World, Leiden - Boston: Brill 2014, 308–333. (With Amy Landau)

• "La cultura armena nella visione del mondo di Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni", in Carmela Baffioni, Rosa Bianca Finazzi, Anna Passoni Dell'Acqua, Emidio Vergani (eds.), Storia e pensiero religioso nel Vicino Oriente. L'Età Bagratide - Maimonide - Afraate. III Dies Academicus, Milano: Biblioteca Ambrosiana Bulzoni Editore 2014, 3–22.

• "Medieval Poetic Texts", in Valentina Calzolari (ed.) With the Collaboration of Michael E. Stone, Armenian Philology in the Modern Era. From Manuscript to Digital Text. Leiden-Boston: Brill 2014, 377-413.

• "Geometry and Contemplation: The Architecture of Vardan Anec'i's Vision of the Throne-Chariot. Theosis and the Art of Memory in Armenia", in Kevork B. Bardakjian and Sergio La Porta (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden - Boston: Brill 2014, 217–241.

• "The Armenian Poet Frik and his verses on Arghun Khan and Bugha", in Robert Hillenbrand, ACS Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva (eds.), Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran. Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. Studies in Honor of Charles Melville. London - New York: IB Tauris, in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation 2013, 249–260.

• "Sacred and Religious Objects," in Sylvie L. Merian, Lucy Ardash, and Edmond Y. Azadian (eds.), A Legacy of Armenian Treasures. Testimony to a People. Southfield, MI: The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum 2013, 234–289 (with Amy S. Landau)

• "Cigarette Cases," in Sylvie L. Merian, Lucy Ardash, and Edmond Y. Azadian (eds.), A Legacy of Armenian Treasures. Testimony to a People. Southfield, MI: The Alex and Marie Manoogian Museum 2013, 306–311 (with Amy S. Landau)

• "Gregory the Illuminator", in Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, and Sabine R. Huebner (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (First Edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell 2013, 2992-2993

• "Սիամանթոյի Սուրբ Մեսրոպին նվիրված բանաստեղծությունների շուրջ" (On Siamant'o's Poems Dedicated to St. Mesrop), Միջազգային գիտական ​​նստաշրջան նվիրված Մեսրոպ Մաշտոցի ծննդյան 1650 ամյակին, Մաշտոցի անվան Մատենադարան, Երևան 20–22 սեպտեմբերի, 2011 թ., Երևան: Բանբեր Մատենադարանի vol . 19, 2012, 65-71.

• "Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni: Armenian culture from the perspective of a learned layman in the 11th century", Ostkirchliche Studien 61, 2012, 66–83

• "Making Sense of Ezekiel's Throne Vision? An Armenian Interpretation from the Bodleian Library", in Dali Chitunashvili (ed. In chief), Nikoloz Aleksidze and Mzia Surbuladze (eds.), Caucasus between East and West. Historical and Philological Studies in Honor of Zaza Aleksidze. Tbilisi: National Center of Manuscripts 2012, 422-428.

• "From Reciting to Writing and Interpretation: Tendencies, Themes, and Demarcations of Armenian Historical Writing," in Sarah Foot and Chase F. Robinson (eds.), The Oxford History of Historical Writing. Volume II, 400-1400. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012, 180-200.

• "Եղիշե Չարենցի 'Աքիլլե՞ս, թե՞ Պյերո' ստեղծագործության մի քանի հարցեր" (A Few Questions about Eghishe Charents' 'Achilles and Pierot'), in А.К. Егиазарян (ред.), Егише Чаренц и его время (Azat Yeghiazaryan [ed.] Eghishe Charents and his Time), Ереван: Издательство РАУ, 2012, 95-106.

• "I Mongoli nella poesia armena medievale", Bazmavep 168 no 3-4, 2010, a cura di Marco Bais e Anna Sirinian (publ. 2012), 457-480.

• "Symbolic Thought in Armenian History", in Gabriella Uluhogian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan, Vartan Karapetian (eds.), Armenia. Imprints of a Civilization, Milano: Skira 2011, 165–171.

• "A Symbolist Poet Reading Narekats'i. Misak Medzarents' at the Crossroads of Modernism and Tradition", in Anna Briskina-Müller, Armenuhi Drost-Abgaryan, Axel Meißner (eds.), Logos im Dialogos. In search of Orthodoxy. Commemorative publication for Hermann Goltz, Berlin: Lit 2011, 43–61.

• "Armenian Apostolic Church", in George Thomas Kurian (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, Vol. I, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2011, 114-120.

• "Vardan Anetsi's Poem On the Divine Chariot and the Four Living Creatures, 10th -11th Century", in Richard G. Hovanissian (ed.), Armenian Kars and Ani, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers 2011, 81-99.

• "Grigor Magistros", "Letters to Amir Ibrahim", and "Magnalia Dei, The Mighty Acts of God", in David Thomas and Alex Mallet (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 2 (950-1100). Leiden: Brill, 2010, 703-707, 707-710, 710-713.

• Review of: Azat Yeghiazaryan, The Daredevils of Sasun: Poetics of an Epic. Translated by S. Peter Cowe, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers, 2008. Comparative Literature Studies, Vol 47, no. 4, 2010, 558-561.

• Review of: ME Stone, Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Armenian Studies. Collected Papers Volume II, Louvain: Peeters, 2006. Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. LXI, No 1, Spring 2010, 160-162.

• "Armenian MS Book" in Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen (eds.), The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 479-480.

• (With Meliné Pehlivanian) "Armenian Type" in Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen (eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Book, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 480.

• "The Treaty of Turkmenchai, 1828. Russian and Armenian Perceptions", in M. Branch (ed.), Defining Self. Essays on emergent identities in Russia Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (Studia Fennica, Ethnologica 10), Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society 2009, 96–116.

• "The Formation of Armenian Identity in the First Millennium", Church History and Religious Culture, 2009 (vol. 89, 1-3), 251-78.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ http://sites.uclouvain.be/aiea/en/
3. ↑ http://www.armenianinstitute.org.uk/
4. ↑ http://www.themahfouzfoundation.org
5. ↑ http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/armenianstudies/sas/
6. ↑ Woorden in de wind van de Oostzee. Estische poëzie uit de twintigste eeuw. Jaan Kaplinski , Doris Kareva , Viivi Luik , Ene Mihkelson , Karl Ristikivi , Paul-Eerik Rummo , Triin Soomets , Mats Traat , Mari Vallisoo , Juhan Viiding . Samengesteld by Cornelius Hasselblatt & Marianne Vogel . Vertaald uit het Estisch door Adriaan van der Hoeven, Theo van Lint, Frans van Nes, Jan Sleumer & Marianne Vogel, olv Cornelius Hasselblatt & Marianne Vogel. Leuven : Uitgeverij P 2005. 175 pp.

Web links

• Theo Maarten van Lint on the Oxford University website
• Homepage of Pembroke College
• Homepage of the AIEA (Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes)