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Martiros Kavoukjian | |
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Born | Nigde, Turkey | August 8, 1908
Died | Montreal, Canada | August 7, 1988
Occupation | Architect, Armenologist]] |
Nationality | Armenian |
Period | 1941-1988 |
Martiros Kavoukjian (August 8, 1908 - August 7, 1988) was an Armenian architect and amateur Armenologist historian-archaeologist who has written various books on ancient Armenian history. He is best known for his national mysticist account of Armenian prehistory in Armenia, Subartu And Sumer, self-published in 1987 in both English and Armenian.
Biography
Martiros Kavoukjian was born in Nigde, Turkey, who later relocated in Mosul, Iraq. Kavoukjian had graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1934 with major in Architectural engineering, who later was the chief municipal architect in Mosul, Iraq during the period of 1941 through 1947. This provided Kavoukjian the opportunity to get acquainted with archaelogical wealth of ruins of the adjacent city Nineveh in particular. This also helped to set the beginning of his career as an orientalist-historian, which from the very beginning carried out research in Armenian and Oriental studies, mainly concentrating on the earliest period of the history of the ancient peoples of the Near East, such as the Sumerians, Akkadians, Assyrians, Urartians, and more specifically, the Armenians.
Martiros was fluent in Arabic, French, English and was thoroughly familiar with six dead languages including Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hurrian as well as the cuneiform symbology and logography of those cultures.[citation needed] He had participated in the translation of cuneiforms of such cities as Nuzi.[citation needed]
Kavoukjian immigrated to Armenia in 1947, shortly after which in the period of 1947-1979, he as the chief architect played a key role within the "Great Rebuilding Project" of Armenia which resulted to the erection of numerous federal, public, industrial, and residential buildings in Armenia. Martiros had established professional relations with members of the local academia, thoroughly familiarizing himself with work, done particularly in the area of linguistics, historiography and archeology.[citation needed]
He published a series of articles on architecture, Armenology, and Urartology, also during the same period he had participated in international scientific conferences within the area of the architecture and historiography. In 1970, his article entitled The Origin of the Names Armen and Hye appeared in the edition of the "Garun" monthly periodical in Yerevan. In this article, Kavoukjian claims that Urartu was an "Armenian kingdom".
In 1973, in Beirut, the complete publication of his voluminous book The Origin of the Names Armen and Hye and Urartu was printed. Almost a dacade later in 1982, 3 years after relocating with his family in Montreal, his work entitled The Origin of Armenians was self-published both in Montreal and in Los Angeles in Armenian and English languages.
In spite of high acknowledgment and well reception by the experts among the professional researchers,[1] the contribution of Kavoukjian was mostly ignored in Soviet academia.
Studies of Kavoukjian have been used and employed in the monographs of Levon Shahinyan, Rafael Ishkhanyan [2], Anzhela Teryan [3], Karapet Sukiasyan [4], Alexander Varpetyan, Lily Stepanyan [5], etc. Armenologist, archimandrite Gomidas Hovnanian (Marseille) called Kavoukjian "a talented scientist" who's research on pre-Homeland of Celts and Celto-Caucasian connections is a detailed answer to the important questions of history. [6]
Kavoukjian died at age of 80 on August 7, 1988 in Montreal, Canada.
Works
- The Genesis of Armenian People, Montreal, 1982.
- Armenia, Subartu and Sumer, Montreal, 1989 ISBN 0921885008
- The origin of the names and Armen Aye, and Urartu, in the subway.) Beirut, 1973
Armenia, Subartu And Sumer
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Author | Martiros Kavoukjian |
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Language | English |
Genre | Prehistory, National mysticism |
Publisher | M. Kavoukjian |
Publication date | 1987 |
Publication place | United states |
Pages | 243 |
Armenia, Subartu And Sumer is inspired by the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins. It seeks to establish an ethnic Armenian identity for the Armani mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani-Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-Sumer relations".
The English translation was published privately with the support of the Malkhassian Foundation, Montreal. The book is identified as a "chauvinist attempt to equate the Proto-Armenians with various mentioned peoples in cuneiform and classical sources" by P. Kohl and G. Tzetzkhladze (1996)[7]
References
- ^ Rafael Ishkhanian, Patkerazard Patmutyun Hayots, Book 1, 1989, Arevik, ISBN 5-8077-0057-0 (5-8077-0057-0)
- ^ Rafael Ishkhanian, Patkerazard Patmutyun Hayots, Book 1, 1989, Arevik, ISBN 5-8077-0057-0 (5-8077-0057-0)
- ^ (in Armenian) Anjela Teryan, "The cult of Ar god in Armenia", Yerevan, Aghvank, 1995
- ^ (in Armenian) Karapet Sukiasyan, "Armens and Ararat", LA, 1996
- ^ L.G.Stepanyan, Armenian (indo-European) stratus in the Polinesian languages, Vol. I, Yerevan, 2001
- ^ (in Russian) Асмик Гулакян, Родина всегда рядом// "Голос Армении", 4 Nov. 2006, http://www.golos.am/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=165&Itemid=53
- ^ 'Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus', in: Kohl, Fawcett (eds.), Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1996), ISBN 0521558395, p. 176