Stepan Malkhasyants
| Stepan Malkhasyants | |
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| Born |
November 7, 1857 Akhaltsikh, Russian Georgia |
| Died | July 21, 1947 (aged 89) Yerevan, Armenian SSR |
| Fields | Philology, Armenian studies, Oriental Studies |
| Institutions | Armenian Academy of Sciences |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | Armenian Explanatory Dictionary |
| Notable awards | Stalin Prize (1946) |
Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasyants (Armenian: Ստեփան Սարգսի Մալխասյանց; November 7 [O.S. October 25] 1857 – July 21, 1947) was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. As an expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasyants wrote the critical editions and translated the works of many classical Armenian historians into modern Armenian and contributed 70 years of his life to the advancement of the study of the Armenian language.
Malkhasyants was born in Akhaltsikh, in what was then Russian Georgia, in 1857. He received his primary education at the Karapetyan Parochial school in Akhaltsikh. From 1874 to 1878, he attended the Gevorkyan Seminary at Vagharshapat (current-day Echmiadzin). In the final year of his studies at Vagharshapat, Malkhasyants was admitted to the department of Oriental studies at Saint Petersburg State University. In 1889, he graduated from the university with an emphasis in Armenian-Sanskrit and Armenian-Georgian studies.
Following the completion of his studies, Malkhasyants taught Armenian at schools and became a regular contributor to periodicals and academic journals. Returning to the Transcaucasus, he took up a teaching position at the Karapetyan Parochial school and later the Yeghiazaryan Gymnasium (also in Akhaltsikh), the Nersisyan, Hovnanyan and Gayanyan Seminaries in Tiflis and at the Gevorkyan Seminary at Vagharshapat. After Yerevan State University was founded in February 1920, Malkhasyants became a part of the faculty of the department of History and Linguistics and was the first instructor to deliver a lecture there. In 1940, Malkhasyants was awarded with his doktor nauk in philology honoris causa. In 1943 he helped found the Armenian Academy of Sciences and was formally elected into its body.
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