Karen Yuzbashyan
| Karen Yuzbashyan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 6, 1927 Tiflis, Georgian SSR |
| Died | March 5, 2009 (aged 82) Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| Fields | Armenian studies, Byzantine studies, Oriental studies |
| Institutions | Armenian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg State University |
| Alma mater | Yerevan State University |
| Influences | Joseph Orbeli |
Karen Yuzbashyan (Armenian: Կարեն Նիկիտի Յուզբաշյան, Armenian pronunciation: [kaɾen juzbaʃˈjan]; Russian: Карен Никитич Юзбашян; January 6, 1927 – March 5, 2009) was an Armenian historian-orientalist and expert on medieval Byzantine-Armenian relations. Yuzbashyan was the author of over 200 books and articles in his lifetime (published in Armenian, Russian, and other languages) on the political, legal, and cultural aspects and relations of the two countries and a researcher on the development of Armenian studies.
Born in Tiflis into the family of an engineer (originally from Shusha) in 1927, Yuzbashyan attended Yerevan State University from 1946 to 1948 and studied at Leningrad State University (now Saint Petersburg State University) from 1948 to 1951, receiving his degree in history. He worked and carried out research at the Matenadaran in Yerevan beginning in 1955 until he transferred to the Leningrad branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies in 1958. In 1974, he received his doktor nauk after defending his thesis on the work of the eleventh century Armenian historian Aristakes Lastivertsi. Four years later, he was promoted to the head of the group for Historical and Cultural Studies at Leningrad's Department of Near Eastern Studies. From 1981 to 1991, Yuzbashyan headed the Leningrad branch of the Palestine Society. Just prior to the Soviet Union's collapse, Yuzbashyan was elected into the Armenian parliament and he served there for a term of five years (1990–1995).
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