Hrachia Acharian
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Acharian in c. 1925
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| Born |
March 8, 1876 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | April 16, 1953 (aged 77) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Fields | Linguistics, Etymology and Philology |
| Alma mater |
University of Paris University of Strasbourg |
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Hrachia Adjarian (Armenian: (classical) Hračʿeay Ačaṙean; (reformed) Hračʿya Ačaṙyan; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenian linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, philologist and academic professor at the Armenian Academy of Sciences. He was also a member of the French Linguistic Association and the Czechoslovakian Institute of Oriental Studies.
Adjarian studied at the Sorbonne with Antoine Meillet and at the University of Strasbourg. He worked as a teacher at the Ejmiatsin Gevorkian seminary in Shusha and Tehran. A survivor of the Armenian Genocide, he came to Yerevan in 1923. There, he taught foreign languages, comparative grammar, and the history of the Armenian language at Yerevan State University. He is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on Armenology, Armenian language, and Oriental Languages.
The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics is named after him.
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