Hrachia Adjarian

Hratschia Adscharian (usually Hrachia Ajarian Armenian Հրաչեայ Աճառեան (classic) HRAC ʿ eay Ačaṙean; Հրաչյա Աճառյան (Reformed) HRAC ʿ ya Ačaṙyan; * 8 ​​Märzjul / March 20 1876greg in Samatia, Konstantin Opel, Ottoman Empire, .. † April 16, 1953 in Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union) was an Armenian linguist.

Adscharian was born the son of a shoemaker and became blind in his childhood, as he stared into the sun. At the age of 17, he wrote in 1893 a grammar of the language of the Laz. The Armenian Christian graduated from the Getronagan High School. He studied in 1898 at the University of Strasbourg in Heinrich Hübschmann and Antoine Meillet at the Sorbonne, where he received his doctorate in 1909. Adscharian then worked as a teacher in Shushi, Tehran and at Gevorkian seminar of Echmiadzin.

As a survivor of the genocide of the Armenians came Hratschia Adscharian 1923 to Yerevan, where he taught as professor foreign languages, comparative grammar and the history of the Armenian language at the University of Yerevan. He was suspected on 29 September 1937 at the course of the Stalinist purges of " nationalism " and imprisoned in 1939, he was released as innocent and was teaching at the university.

Adscharian is the author of more than 200 scientific publications on Armenology, Armenian language and the oriental languages. He was a member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences, the French linguist Association and the Oriental Institute in Prague. The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics named after him.

Publications (selection)

  • Homshetsi dialect, 1907
  • Classification of dialects of Armenia. H. Champion, Paris 1909 ( = dissertation)
  • Armenian Dialectal Dictionary ( Հայերէն Գաւառական Բառարան ), 1913, Tbilisi
  • Տաճկահայոց հարցի պատմությունը, The History of Turkish Armenians (from the starting to 1915), 1915, Nor Nakhichevan
  • Nor- Nakhijevan dialect, 1925
  • Maragha dialect, 1926
  • Dictionary of Armenian Root Words ( ՀԱՅԵՐԷՆ ԱՐՄԱՏԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՌԱՐԱՆ ) ( 5,062 word roots ). (second publication: Yerevan 1971) The unique study of the history and roots of the Armenian Wortherkünfte in Armenian. Also includes explanations of every word that is used today. First publications in 7 Expenditure: 1926-1935
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