Hrachia Acharian

Hrachia Hakobi Acharian ("Hrachya Ajarian", March 8, 1876, Constantinople - 1953, Yerevan) was an outstanding Armenian linguist, etymologist and philologist, Professor, Academic of Armenian Academy of Sciences, a member of French Linguistic Association and Czechoslovakian Institute of Oriental studies.

He studied at Sorbonneand Strasbourg Universities. Ajarian worked as a teacher in Ejmiadzin Gevorkian seminarium, Shushi and Tehran. A survivor of Armenian Genocide, he came to Yerevan in 1923, where he taught foreign languages, comparative grammar, and the history of the Armenian language at the Yerevan State University, headed a cafedra. He is an author of more than 200 scientific researches on Armenology, Armenian language and Oriental Languages.

The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics is named after him.

Works

*The classification of Armenian dialects, 1911,
*Common gramatics of Armenian language in comparison of 562 languages, Vol. 1-6, 1952-1971,
*The History of Turkish Armenians (from the starting to 1915), 1915.

ources

*Concise Armenian Encyclopedia, Ed. by acad. K. Khudaverdyan, Yerevan, 1990, Vol. 1, p. 145-146.

Link

* [http://www.armenianhistory.info/ajarian.htm Hrachia Acharian]
* [http://www.littlearmenia.com/html/history/detail.asp?id=198 Biography]