Martiros Kavoukjian (, ', August 8, 1908 - August 8, 1988) was an Armenian architect, researcher, Armenologist and historian-archaeologist who has written various books on ancient

Armenian history The history of Armenia covers the topics related to the history of the Republic of Armenia, as well as the Armenian people, the Armenian language, and the regions historically and geographically considered ''Armenian''. Armenia is located ...

. He is best known for his account of Armenian prehistory in ''Armenia, Subartu And Sumer'', published in 1987 in both English and Armenian.

Biography

Martiros Kavoukjian was born in Nigde, Ottoman Empire on August 8, 1908. His family soon moved to Mosul, which was also at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. Kavoukjian graduated from the American University of Beirut in 1934 majoring in Architectural engineering, then worked as the chief municipal architect of Mosul, Iraq during the period from 1941 to 1947. In Iraq, he designed and built both governmental and residential buildings. Kavoukjian immigrated to Armenia in 1947, and in 1947-1979, he played a key role within the "Great Rebuilding Project" of Armenia as the chief architect, building numerous federal, public, industrial, and residential buildings. In 1973, his "The Origin of the Names Armen and Hye and Urartu" was published in Beirut. Studies of Kavoukjian have been cited in the works by

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, Rafael Ishkhanian, Patkerazard Patmutyun Hayots, Book 1, 1989, Arevik, (5-8077-0057-0) Karapet Sukiasyan, Lily Stepanyan, but were mostly ignored in Soviet academia. Armenologist, archimandrite Gomidas Hovnanian in a 2006 interview described Kavoukjian as "a talented scientist" who had written a research on "The ancestral home of the Celtic tribes and Celtic-Caucasian connections". In 2008 an evening commemorating Kavoukjian's legacy took place in Montreal, Quebec.

Armenia, Subartu And Sumer

''Armenia, Subartu And Sumer'' is inspired by the Armenian hypothesis of

Indo-European origins The Proto-Indo-European homeland (or Indo-European homeland) was the prehistoric linguistic homeland of the Proto-Indo-European language (PIE). From this region, its speakers Indo-European migrations, migrated east and west, and went on to form ...

. It seeks to establish an ethnic Armenian identity for the " Armani" mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani- Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-

Sumer Sumer () is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia (south-central Iraq), emerging during the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages between the sixth and fifth millennium BC. It is one of the cradles of c ...

relations". The English translation was published privately with the support of the Malkhassian Foundation, Montreal. The book has been called a "chauvinist attempt to equate the Proto-Armenians with various mentioned peoples in cuneiform and classical sources" by P. Kohl and G. Tzetzkhladze (1996)."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), , p. 176

Works

*The Genesis of Armenian People, Montreal, 1982. *Armenia, Subartu and Sumer, Montreal, 1989 *The origin of the names and Armen Aye, and Urartu, in the subway.) Beirut, 1973

Bibliography

* Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Edition-1976, Vol. 2, Pages-697, 698 *THE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY FOR ARMENIAN STUDIES, ''Kavoukjian, Martiros. Armenia, Subartu and Sumer''. Review by R.D. Wilkinson. Vol. 5 (1990–1991): pp. 189–192.

References

External links

Martiros Kavoukjian at ArmeniaPedia.org
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