Gabriel Aivazovsky or Ayvazyan ( hy, Գաբրիէլ Այվազեան, russian: link=no, Гаврии́л Константи́нович Айвазо́вский; 22 May 1812 – 20 April 1879) was an

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, scholar, educator and historian. He was the elder brother of the artist

Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (russian: link=no, Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July 18172 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized a ...

Biography

Gabriel Aivazovsky was born in

Feodosia uk, Феодосія, Теодосія crh, Kefe , official_name = () , settlement_type= , image_skyline = THEODOSIA 01.jpg , imagesize = 250px , image_caption = Genoese fortress of Caffa , image_shield = Fe ...

into a family of Armenian merchants. He received a scientific education at the Mkhitarist Monastery on

San Lazzaro Island San Lazzaro degli Armeni (, "Saint Lazarus of the Armenians"; called Saint Lazarus Island in English sources; hy, Սուրբ Ղազար, Surb Ghazar) is a small island in the Venetian Lagoon which has been home to the monastery of the Mekhitar ...

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. He was also a teacher of Oriental languages. In 1848, he was appointed a director of the Armenian College Samuel Moorat in

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, and subsequently founded the same Armenian college. His most important works are "''Essay on the History of Russia''" (in

, 1836), "''History of the Ottoman State''" (also in

, 2 volumes,

, 1841). He was also one of the main staff of Paschal Aucher's (Harutiun Avgerian) Armenian dictionary. In 1843, he and

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founded ''

Bazmavep ''Bazmavep'' (''Pazmaveb'' in Western Armenian; hy, Բազմավէպ, "Polyhistory") is an academic journal covering Armenian studies. It is published by the Mechitarist monastery in San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice, Italy. According to Robert ...

,'' the very first Armenian scholarly journal.

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