Gohar Muradyan

Gohar Muradyan (October 28, 1957, Yerevan) is an Armenian philologist, translator. Doctor of Philology (1986), Doctor of Sciences (Philology) (2005). Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia, head of the Department for the Study of Translated Literature.

Life

Gohar Muradyan was born on October 28, 1957 in Yerevan. From 1969 to 1974 she studied at the English School No. 172 in Yerevan, 1974-1979 she studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Leningrad State University, 1979-1982 she did her Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenian National Academy of Sciences (scientific advisor academician Gagik Sargsyan). Since 1982, Muradyan has been working at the Matenadaran, since 1998 as Senior Researcher, since 2014 she is the Head of the Department of Study and Translation of Old Texts.

She has published critical editions of texts, monographs and articles on old Armenian translations from Greek.

In 1986 she defended her PhD: "The Book of Chreia and its Sources." From November 2001 she is member of AIEA ("Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes"). In 2005 shed defended her doctoral dissertation: "The Hellenizing School and Classical Armenian."

She has taken part in many international conferences, joint research projects, cooperating with authoritative research institutions: in 1996-1997 with the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main), in 1998 with the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, in 1999–2002, 2001–2004, 2005–2007 with the University of Geneva, in 2008–2009 with the Graz University, in 2007–2012 with the University of Nebraska. This cooperation resulted in monographs, articles and translations in Armenian, English, French and Russian.

Critical Editions of Texts

* ''Գիրք պիտոյից'' (Book of Chreia), critical edition by G. Muradyan, Yerevan, Armenian Academy Publishing House, 1993.
* ''Physiologus, The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique'', by G. Muradyan, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA։ Peeters (Hebrew University Armenian Studies 6), 2005.
* ''Գրիգոր Մագիստրոսի Թուղթք և չափաբերականք (Letters and Verses by Grigor Magistros)'', critical text and Introduction, Մատենագիրք հայոց (Medieval Armenian Literature), 11th c., vol. 16, Yerevan, Nairi, 2012, pp. 139–481.
* David the Invincible, ''Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge'', Old Armenian Text with the Greek Original, an English Translation, Introduction and Notes by Gohar Muradyan, Leiden-Boston։ Brill, 2014.
* ''Դաւիթ Անյաղթին վերագրուած եւ նրա անուանն առնչուող գրուածքներ'' (''Writings Ascribed to David the Invincible and Related to Him''), քննական բնագրեր եւ առաջաբան, Մատենագիրք հայոց (Medieval Armenian Literature), 12th c., Mkhitar Gosh, vol. 20, Yerevan: Nairi, 2014, Appendix, pp. 613–782.
* Old Armenian Versions of the Dialectics by John of Damascus. Critical Texts and Study (John of Damascus, Armenian Translations, volume I), Yerevan, 2019, 316 pp.

Monographs

* ''Catalogue of the Armenian manuscript fragments of the Mekhitarist library in Vienna'' (co-author Aram Topchyan, with an afterword by Erich Renhart), bilingual Armenian-English edition, Yerevan: Ankyunakar Publishing, 2012, 374 p.
* ''Grecisms in Ancient Armenian, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA։ Peeters'' (Hebrew University Armenian Studies 13), 2012, 280 p.
* ''Հունաբանությունները դասական հայերենում (Grecisms in Ancient Armenian)'', Yerevan: Nairi, 2010, 291 p.
* ''Հին հունական առասպելների արձագանքները հայ միջնադարյան մատենագրության մեջ (Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature)'' Yerevan: Nairi, 2014, 299 p.
* Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature, Brill, 2022

Articles

* * "Греческая надпись царя Тиридата из Гарни" ("The Greek Inscription of King Trdat from Garni"), ''Historico-Philological Journal of the Armenian Academy of Sciences'', 1981, N 3, pp. 81–94.
* «Խորենացու երկու աղբյուրի թվագրման շուրջը» ("On the Dating Khorenatsi's Two Sources"), ''Historico-Philological Journal of the Armenian Academy of Sciences'', 1990, N 4, pp. 94–104.
* "Первоначальный полный сборник Афтония и древнеармянская Книга хрий" ("The Original Complete Collection of Aphthonius and the Old Armenian Book of Chreia"), ''Vizantijskij vremennik'', 1994, вып. 55/1, pp. 141–144.
* "The Reflection of Foreign Proper Names, Theonyms and Mythological Creatures in the Ancient Armenian Translations from Greek," ''Revue des Études Arméniennes, Montreal, May 1–5, 1995''). Ed. by D. Sakayan, New York, 1996, pp. 279–291.
* «Փիլոն Ալեքսանդրացու գրաբար թարգմանությունների լեզվական որոշ առանձնահատկությունները» ("Some Lexicological Characteristics of the Armenian Version of Philo Alexandrinus"), ''Historico-Philological Journal of the Armenian Academy of Sciences'', 1997, N 1, pp. 167–176.
* "The Rhetorical Exercises (Progymnasmata) in the Old Armenian "Book of Chreia" (Girk' pitoyic') – Translation or Original Composition? (On the Occasion of P. Cowe's Review)," ''Revue des Études Arméniennes