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Mesrop Mashtots
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Mesrop Mashtots | |
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| Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց | |
 This 1882 painting by Stepanos Nersissian (now kept at the Pontifical Residence in Etchmiadzin) is a commonly reproduced image of Mashtots.[1] | |
| Born | c. 361 |
| Died | February 17, 440 (traditional date)[3][4] |
| Resting place | Saint Mesrop Mashtots Church, Oshakan, Armenia |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Occupation(s) | Court secretary, missionary, militaryman, inventor |
| Era | Armenian Golden Age |
| Known for | Inventing the Armenian alphabet |
Mesrop Mashtots (; Armenian: Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց Mesrop Maštoc'; Eastern Armenian: [mɛsˈɾop maʃˈtotsʰ]; Western Armenian: [mɛsˈɾob maʃˈtotsʰ]; 362 – February 17, 440 AD) was an Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist in the Sasanian Empire. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.[5] He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian[6] and Georgian alphabets by a number of scholars[7][8][9][10] and a number of other scholars have disputed this claim.[11][12][13][14][15][16]
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- ^ Jost, Gippert (2011). "The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests". Die Entstehung der kaukasischen Alphabete als kulturhistorisches Phänomen: Referate des internationalen Symposions (Wien, 1.-4. Dezember 2005) = The creation of the Caucasian alphabets as phenomenon of cultural history. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 9783700170884.
There can be no doubt that the Albanian alphabet as established now depends in its structure on the Armenian alphabet in quite the same way as the latter depends on the Greek... the two alphabets differ considerably from the Old Georgian one as this has preserved the Greek arrangement intact to a much greater an extent...
- ^ Rayfield, Donald (2000). The Literature of Georgia: A History (2nd rev. ed.). Surrey: Curzon Press. p. 19. ISBN 0700711635.
- ^ Grenoble, Lenore A. (2003). Language policy in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer Acad. Publ. p. 116. ISBN 1402012985.
- ^ Bowersock, G.W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg, eds. (1999). Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
- ^ Der Nersessian, Sirarpie (1969). The Armenians. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 85.
After the Armenian alphabet Mesrop also devised one for the Caucasian Albanians.
- ^ Moses; Thomson, Robert W. (1978). History of the Armenians. Harvard Armenian texts and studies (in engarm). Cambridge: Harvard University Press. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-674-39571-8.
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- ^ Seibt, Werner; Preiser-Kapeller, Johannes, eds. (2011). Die Entstehung der kaukasischen Alphabete als kulturhistorisches Phänomen: Referate des internationalen Symposions (Wien, 1.-4. Dezember 2005) = The creation of the Caucasian alphabets as phenomenon of cultural history. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Philosophisch-Historische Klasse. Denkschriften. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 83–90. ISBN 978-3-7001-7088-4. OCLC 769628310.
- ^ Hernández de la Fuente, David A.; Torres Prieto, Susana; Francisco Heredero, Ana de, eds. (2014). New perspectives on late antiquity in the Eastern Roman Empire. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 136–138. ISBN 978-1-4438-6947-8.
- ^ Rayfield, Donald (2013). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. London: Reaktion Books. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-78023-070-2.
- ^ Braund, David (1994). Georgia in antiquity: a history of Colchis and Transcaucasian Iberia, 550 BC-AD 562. Oxford : Oxford ; New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press. pp. 215–216. ISBN 978-0-19-814473-1.
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