Aram Ter-Ghevondyan
| Aram Ter-Ghevondyan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 24, 1928 Cairo, Egypt |
| Died | February 10, 1988 (aged 59) |
| Fields | Armenian studies, Oriental studies |
| Institutions | Armenian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Joseph Orbeli |
| Known for |
The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia (1965) Армения и apaбcкий Халифат (1977) |
| Influences | Hrachia Acharian, Joseph Orbeli |
Aram Ter-Ghevondyan (Armenian: Արամ Նահապետի Տեր-Ղևոնդյան; Russian: Aрaм Наaпетович Теp-Гeвoндян, also often seen written in Western sources as Ter-Ghewondyan or Ter-Łewondyan; July 24, 1928 – February 10, 1988) was a preeminent Armenian historian and scholar who specialized in the study of historical sources and medieval Armenia's relations with the Islamic world and Oriental studies. His seminal work, The Arab Emirates in Bagratuni Armenia, is an important study on the Bagratuni Kingdom of Armenia. From 1981 until his death, Ter-Ghevondyan headed the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Armenian Academy of Sciences and he additionally held an honorary doctorate from the University of Aleppo and was an associate member of the Tiberian Academy of Rome.
Ter-Ghevondyan was born in Cairo, Egypt to an Armenian family which had fled from the town of Marash in the Ottoman Empire during the massacres of the Armenian Genocide. In the late 1940s, his family repatriated to Soviet Armenia and there he was immediately admitted to Yerevan State University. Ter-Ghevondyan graduated from the university's department of philology of Oriental languages in 1954. Pursuing higher studies, he was accepted to the Oriental Studies Department at Leningrad State University. There, he met the renowned Armenian scholars Hrachia Acharian and Joseph Orbeli. He was especially fond of the guidance and advice Orbeli provided him with, as he repeatedly remarked after he had completed his studies, "Once more, fortune had smiled upon me, [for] my adviser was Academician Hovsep [Joseph] Orbeli." He defended his dissertation, The Emirate of Dvin from the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries, and was awarded his kandidat nauk in 1958.
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