Sirarpie Der Nerséssian
| Sirarpie Der Nersessian | |
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| Born |
September 5, 1896 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | July 5, 1989 (aged 92) Paris, France |
| Fields | Armenian studies, Byzantine studies |
| Institutions | Dumbarton Oaks, Wellesley College, Harvard University |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne University |
| Doctoral advisor | Gabriel Millet |
| Influences | André Grabar, Charles Diehl, Henri Focillon, Gabriel Millet |
| Notable awards | Order of Saint Gregory the Illuminator (1960, First Class) Anania Shirakatsi Award (1981, Armenian Academy of Sciences) |
Sirarpie Der Nersessian (5 September 1896 – 5 July 1989) was an Armenian art historian, who specialized in Armenian and Byzantine studies. Der Nersessian was a renowned academic and a pioneer in Armenian art history. She taught at several institutions in the United States, including Wellesley College in Massachusetts and as Henri Focillon Professor of Art and Archaeology at Harvard University. She was a senior fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, its deputy director from 1954–55 and 1961–62 and a member of its Board of Scholars. Der Nersessian was also a member of several international institutions such as the British Academy (1975), the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (1978) and the Armenian Academy of Sciences (1966).
Der Nersessian was born the youngest of three children in Constantinople in 1896. She came from a well-to-do family and her maternal uncle happened to be the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Malachia Ormanian. Her parents died while she was still young: her mother Akabi, when she was nine, and her father Mihran, when she was eighteen. She graduated from Yesayan Parochial School and the English High School in Constantinople, gaining fluency in Armenian, English and French at an early age. In 1915, during the height of the Armenian Genocide, Der Nersessian and her sister Arax (by then orphans) were forced to leave for Europe, where they took up residence in Geneva. Der Nersessian studied at the University of Geneva for several years until settling in Paris, France in 1919.
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