Nicholas Adontz
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January 10, 1871 Brnakot, Sisian, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 27, 1942 (aged 71) Brussels, Belgium |
| Fields | Byzantine studies, Armenian studies |
| Institutions | Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | -Histoire d'Arménie (1946) -Armenia in the Period of Justinian: the Political Conditions based on the Naxarar System (1908) |
| Influences | Nicholas Marr |
| Influenced | Cyril Toumanoff, Peter Charanis |
Nicholas Adontz (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Ադոնց, Nikoġayos Adonc’, also spelled Adonts; Russian: Николай Адонц; January 10, 1871 – January 27, 1942) was an Armenian historian, specialist of Byzantine and Armenian studies, and philologist. Adontz was the author of the Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.
Adontz was born Nikoghayos Ter-Avetikyan (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Տեր-Ավետիքյան) in the village of Brnakot in Sisian, which was then part of the Zangezur uezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate (modern Syunik). His family traced its roots to an eighteenth-century Armenian military figure and close ally of David Bek named Ter-Avetik. He graduated from a parochial school in Tatev and later studied at the Gevorkian Theological Seminary in Echmiadzin and the Russian gymnasium in Tbilisi (1892–1894).
Adontz was accepted to the University of St. Petersburg and studied at the Departments of Oriental languages and History and Philology under the general direction of the renowned historian and linguist, Nicholas Marr. He learned Latin and Greek and graduated with honors in 1899. Following this, Adontz went along with Marr to Europe (Munich, Paris, London and Vienna) and the two worked together in the area of Byzantine studies until 1901. In 1903, Adontz returned to the Caucasus, learning Georgian and later working at the manuscript repository in Echmiadzin.
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