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Rouben Abrahamian
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Born
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Died
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Scientific career
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Rouben Abrahamian
(
Armenian
:
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; 1881 ? 1951) was an
Armenian
Iranologist
, linguist and translator.
Biography
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Rouben Abrahamian was born in 1881 in the village of
Gnishik
(modern-day
Vayots Dzor
Province of
Armenia
), then part of the
Russian Empire
. He received his secondary education in
Etchmiadzin
and
Yerevan
, and then moved abroad for higher education in a number of places. First, he studied at the Faculty of History and Philology at the
Kiev University
(1907), then at
Leipzig University
(1909), and then at the
Saint Petersburg Imperial University
(1911). After his academic spell in Europe, he returned and started teaching Russian, linguistics, and classical philosophy in Yerevan. Between 1912 and 1921, he taught in
Tiflis
(Tbilisi), as well as at other schools in the
Caucasus
region. In 1921, he moved to neighboring
Iran
and taught for many years at various
Armenian
schools in
Tabriz
,
New Julfa
, and
Tehran
.
During his time in Tehran, Abrahamian served as the principal of a large Armenian school. At the same time, he also began his study of ancient and
modern Persian
. Some time later, he once again travelled to Europe for educational matters, and in 1935, he received his doctorate in
philology
from the
Sorbonne University
in Paris (nowadays University of Paris). He wrote his graduation thesis on the
Judeo-Persian
dialects of Judeo-Isfahani and
Judeo-Hamadani
. His interest for this topic stemmed from the time he translated the works of the 11th-century Iranian poet
Baba Tahir
into Armenian.
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Abrahamian's work on this matter was pivotal, for he found important commonalities between the language used in Baba Tahir’s poems and the Jewish dialects of the Iranian cities of
Hamad?n
and
Isfahan
. His findings on behalf of Baba Tahir and the Jewish dialects were published in the following year under the title of
Dialectologie iranienne: dialectes des Israelites de Hamadan et d’Ispahan et dialecte de Baba Tahir
.
When the
University of Tehran
was founded in 1935, Abrahamian participated actively in the establishment of its department of Ancient Iranian Languages, where he subsequently started teaching
Pahlavi
and became head of the faculty as well. In 1946, following the
Iran crisis of 1946
, he moved to
Soviet Armenia
, where he worked at the Institute of Languages at the Academy of Sciences in Yerevan.
Publications
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- K?areakner ew ?azalner: Baba T?ahir Orian Hamadani (The quatrains and ?azals of B?b? ??her ?Ory?n Hamad?ni), Tehran, 1930.
- Ferdovsin ew ir ?ahnam?n (Ferdowsi and his Shahnameh), Tehran, 1934.
- Hatuatsner ?ahnameits (Excerpts from the Shahnameh), Tehran, 1934.
- Dialectologie iranienne : dialectes des Israelites de Hamadan et d’Ispahan et dialecte de Baba Tahir, Paris, 1936.
- Alefb?-ye pahlavi, Tehran, 1937.
- R?hnem?-ye zab?n-e pahlavi, Tehran, 1938.
- Sayat?-Novayi tagher? (The Verses of Sayat Nova), Tehran, 1943.
- Ard? W?r?z-n?mag, Yerevan, 1958.
- Pahlaveren-parskeren-hayeren-?useren-angleren ba?aran (Pahlavi-Persian-Armenian-Russian-English dictionary), Yerevan, 1965.
References
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Sources
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- Manoukian, Jennifer.
"ABRAHAMIAN, ROUBEN"
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Encyclopaedia Iranica
. Retrieved
21 March
2016
.
- H. M. Ayvazean, Ov ov ? hayer: Kensagrakan hanragitaran (Who is Who among Armenians: Biographical encyclopedia), Yerevan, 2005, p. 22.
- B. L Ch?ugaszean, Hayrenatardz iranahay d?mk?er (Repatriated Iranian-Armenians), Yerevan, 1997, pp. 11?12.
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