Vahakn Dadrian

Vahakn Norayr Dadrian (Armenian Վահագն Տատրյան, born May 26, 1926 in Istanbul) is of Armenian genocide researcher and sociologist.

Life and reception

Vahakn Dadrian was born in Turkey in a family who lost many members of the Armenians during the genocide. He studied mathematics in Berlin, at the University of Vienna and history at the University of Zurich International Law and received his PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago. Dadrian has taught and teaches since the early 1990s at numerous universities, including at the Free University of Berlin. His main field of work is the genocide of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire from 1915.

Vahakn Norair Dadrian is now professor emeritus and director of the US-Canadian Zoryan Research Institute.

Dadrian received much positive approval, but also received negative criticism. The scientist Peter Balakian Dadrian called the " leading scientists of the Armenian genocide ". The historian Malcolm E. Yapp criticized Dadrians approach was " not a historian who wants to find out what happened and why it happened, but a lawyer who prepared his case for the prosecution in a hostile system ". The German genocide researchers Hilmar Kaiser criticized Dadrians " selective use of sources " and stated that " serious scientists warned " should be to "take all statements of Dadrian literally".

Works

  • Jenosid Ulusal ve Uluslararasi Hukuk sorunu olarak 1915 Ermeni Olay ve Hukuki Sonuçlar [ Genocide as a problem of national and international law: The Armenian case in the First World War and its contemporary legal ramifications ]. translated by Yavuz Alogan. Istanbul: Belge Uluslararasi Yayincilik, 1995, 221 pp.
  • Haykakan Tsekhaspanut ` iune Khorhtaranayin ev Patmagitakan Knnarkumnerov ( Dealing with the Ottoman genocide in the Ottoman Parliament and its historical analysis). Watertown, MA: Baikar, 1995, 147 pp.
  • Autopsy du Genocide Arménien. translated by Marc & Mikaël Nichanian. Brussels: Éditions Complexe, 1995, 266 pp.
  • The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from the Balkans to Anatolia to the Caucasus. Providence, RI & Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1995, 452 pp.
  • German Responsibility in the Armenian Genocide: A Review of the Historical Evidence of German Complicity. Watertown, MA: Blue Crane Books, 1996, 304 pp.
  • Histoire du génocide arménien: Conflits nationaux of the Balkans au Caucase. translated by Marc Nichanian. Paris: Stock, 1996, 694 pp.
  • The Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide: A Case Study of Distortion and Falsification. Cambridge, MA and Toronto: Zoryan Institute, 1999, 84 pp.
  • Warrant for Genocide: Key Elements of Turko - Armenian Conflict. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 1999, 214 pp.
  • Los elementos clave en el del Turco negacionismo Genocidio Armenia: un estudio de distorsion y falsificación. translated by Eduardo A. Karsaclian. Buenos Aires: Fundación Armenia, 2002, 79 pp.
  • Historia Tis Armenikan Genoktonias [History of the Armenian genocide ]. Athens: Stokhastis, 2002, 685 pp.
  • Historia del Genocidio Armenio. Conflictos étnicos de los Balcanes a Anatolia y al CAUCASO. translated by Eduardo A. Karsaclian. Buenos Aires: Imago Mundi, 2008, 434 pp.
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