John A. C. Greppin (April 2, 1937 – May 3, 2016) was an American scholar of

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, linguist, and a professor at the

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Biography

He attended the Allendale School in Rochester, New York,

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, and

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. Greppin received a Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies at the

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in 1972. He taught Greek and Latin at the Woodstock Country School in

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, and was a professor at Cleveland State University from 1975 to 2010. Greppin was an author of 16 books and 500 articles and reviews. His academic specialty was

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. He spent a year in

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on a

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grant in 1974-75. In 1998 he spent a semester in Göttingen, Germany as a visiting Professor. He founded the ''Annual of Armenian Linguistics'' and edited it for 25 years. He also co-edited ''Raft'', a Journal of Armenian Poetry and Criticism. In 2013 he donated his Armenian collection to the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) library. With his wife Mary E. Greppin (Hannan) they had two children.

Awards

* Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Cleveland State University (2010)Convocation Address, President Ronald M. Berkman, CSU, October 5, 2010
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Works

* ''The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus''.

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(Editor), John L. Gueriguian (Editor), John AC Greppin (Editor). 1999. * ''Handbook of Armenian Dialectology'' (Anatolian and Caucasian studies). by John A. C. Greppin, Amalya Khachaturyan, New York : Caravan, 1986, 253 p. * ''"Bark Galianosi": The Greek-Armenian Dictionary to Galen.'' Author: John AC Greppin. December 1985. * ''Interrogativity: A Colloquium on the Grammar, Typology, and Pragmatics of Questions in Seven Diverse Languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th, 1981-May 3rd, 1982''. Author: John AC Greppin, Louis Tonko Milic, William Chisholm. January 1984. ; * ''Studies in Classical Armenian Literature'' (Anatolian and Caucasian Studies), by John A. C. Greppin, 1994, 261 p.

References

External links

John Greppin - The Urartian Influence on the Earliest Armenians
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