Gabriel Aivazovsky or Ayvazyan ( hy, Գաբրիէլ Այվազեան, russian: link=no, Гаврии́л Константи́нович Айвазо́вский; 22 May 1812 – 20 April 1879) was an
Armenian
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Catholic
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archbishop, 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 ...
.
Biography
Gabriel Aivazovsky was born in
Feodosia
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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 Mekhita ...
in
Venice
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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
Sèvres
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, and subsequently founded the same Armenian college. His most important works are "''Essay on the History of Russia''" (in
Armenian
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,
Venice
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, 1836), "''History of the Ottoman State''" (also in
Armenian
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, 2 volumes,
Venice
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, 1841). He was also one of the main staff of Paschal Aucher's (Harutiun Avgerian) Armenian dictionary. In 1843, he and
Ghevont Alishan __NOTOC__
Ghevont Alishan () (1820-1901; also spelled Ghevond Alishan, or Leonzio Alishan in Italian or Léonce Alichan in French) was an ordained Armenian Catholic priest, historian and a poet. He was awarded by the Legion of Honour of the Frenc ...
founded ''
Bazmavep,'' the very first Armenian scholarly journal.
See also
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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 ...
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Armenians in Ukraine
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Armenians in Crimea
Armenians have maintained a presence in the Crimea since the Middle Ages. The first wave of Armenian immigration into this area began during the mid-eleventh century and, over time, as political, economic and social conditions in Armenia proper f ...
References
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Armenian Apostolic Christians
Armenian academics
Armenian people from the Russian Empire
1812 births
1879 deaths
San Lazzaro degli Armeni alumni
19th-century Armenian historians