Wiada Arturovna Arutyunova-Fidanyan

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Wiada Arturovna Arutjunowa-Fidanjan ( Russian Виада Артуровна Арутюнова-Фиданян ; born September 30, 1937 in Moscow ) is a Soviet - Russian Byzantinist , Armenologist and Caucasiologist .

Life

Arutjunowa-Fidanyan studied at the Lomonosov University Moscow (MGU) in the Classical Department of the Faculty of Philology . In 1960, at the end of her studies, she defended her diploma thesis on the pre- Homer epic in Homer's poems . She then taught ancient Greek at the MGU and Latin at the University of Friendship of Nations .

1962 Arutjunowa-Fidanjan was at the Yerevan State University aspirant for Byzantine Studies . From 1966 to 1978 she worked at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) in Yerevan. In 1968 she defended her dissertation on the Typikon by Gregor Pakourianos for her doctorate as a candidate in history at the Faculty of History of the University of Yerevan .

In 1986, Arutjunova-Fidanyan returned to Moscow and worked at the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) ). At the chair there she defended her doctoral thesis on the Armenian - Byzantine contact zone in 1991 with success for her doctorate in history.

Since 1997, Arutjunowa-Fidanyan has been a senior research fellow at the RAN Institute for General History in Moscow.

Arutjunowa-Fidanyan's research focus is the Byzantine Empire with regard to its economic and political history, cartography and its social and administrative structure. She examined the Armenian Dyophysite communities (see Council of Chalcedon ) in the countries of the Byzantine culture. She also studied the views of Byzantine and Armenian historians about the Rus . Most recently, she devoted herself to the interaction mechanisms of the oral and written tradition. She participates in international projects with scientists in Bulgaria , Germany , France and the USA and in programs of the RAN.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b К юбилею Виады Артуровны Арутюновой-Фиданян . In: Византийский временник . No. 67 , 2008, p. 305-312 .
  2. a b c d e f Джагацпанян Е. Д .: Арутюнова-Фиданян, Виада Артуровна . In: Православная энциклопедия. Т.  III . Церковно-научный центр "Православная энциклопедия", Moscow 2001, ISBN 5-89572-008-0 , p. 472 ( [1] ).
  3. a b c d e f Institute for General History of the RAN, Центр "Восточная Европа в античном и средневековом мире": Арутюнова-Фиданян вниадо. Accessed on May 4, 2020.