Gabriel Aivazovsky
Gabriel Aivazovsky Գաբրիել Այվազեան | |
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| Born | 22 May 1812 |
| Died | 20 April 1879 (aged 66) |
| Occupation | Archbishop, scientist, writer, historian, educator |
| Relatives | Ivan Aivazovsky (brother) |
Gabriel Aivazovsky (Gabriel Ayvazyan, Armenian: Գաբրիել Այվազյան, Russian: Гаврии́л Константи́нович Айвазо́вский), (22 May 1812 – 20 April 1879), was an Armenian Archbishop, scientist, historian, and the brother of the artist Ivan Aivazovsky.
Biography[]
He was born in Feodosiya, into a family of Armenian merchants. He received a scientific education at the Mkhitarist Monastery, on San Lazzaro Island in Venice. He was also a teacher of Oriental languages. In 1848, he was appointed a director of the Armenian College Samuel Moorat in Sèvres, and subsequently founded the same Armenian college. His most important works are "Essay on the History of Russia" (in Armenian, Venice, 1836), "History of the Ottoman State" (also in Armenian, 2 volumes, Venice, 1841). He was also one of the main staff of a large Armenian dictionary, "Auhera". In 1843, he and Ghevont Alishan founded Bazmavep the very first Armenian scholarly journal.[1]
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- (in Russian) Энциклопедия фонда Хай-Азг
- (in Russian) Русская история в портретах
- Armenian Apostolic Christians
- Armenian academics
- Armenian historians
- Armenian people of the Russian Empire
- 1812 births
- 1879 deaths
- Alumni of San Lazzaro degli Armeni
- 19th-century Armenian historians