Ruben Orbeli ( hy, Ռուբեն Աբգարի Օրբելի, Ruben Abgari Orbeli; russian: Рубен Абгарович Орбели, Ruben Abgarovich Orbeli; 26 January (
O.S. 7 February) 1880 – 9 May 1943) — a Soviet archeologist, historian and jurist, who was renowned as the founder of Soviet underwater archeology.
[ Н. Григорьян ''Научная династия Орбели.'' М., Наука, 2002, 522 с.] He was the elder brother of
Joseph and
Leon Orbeli
Leon Abgarovich Orbeli ( hy, Լևոն Աբգարի Օրբելի, Levon Abgari Orbeli; russian: Леон Абгарович Орбели, Levon Abgarovich Orbeli; – 9 December 1958) was an Armenian physiologist active in the Russian SFSR ...
, and Rusadan Orbeli's father.
Biography
Born into a
medieval noble family in
Nakhchivan,
Russian Empire in 1880. Ruben Orbeli completed his secondary education at a classical
gymnasium in
Tiflis. Some time later he went to study at
S.Petersburg University. In 1903, after graduating the university Ruben Orbeli stayed there to be a professor of jurisprudence. From 1904 to 1906 Orbeli worked at society of magistrates and then he was elected a member of Saint Petersburg State University's juristic society. During this period he was sent to Germany for improvement his knowledge.
In 1906 Ruben Orbeli became a laws magistr of Saint Petersburg State University's and a laws doctor of
Jene University's, also he was author and editor a series of articles in newspaper of Russian treasury department from this moment.
In 1918 Ruben became one of the founder Tambov State University, where he taught and read lecture. After that he returned to Saint Petersburg State University and worked in branch of
USSR Science Academy.
In 1934 on Aleksey Krylov recommendation Ruben Orbeli was invited into the
EPRON
EPRON, russian: Экспедиция подводных работ особого назначения (ЭПРОН) "Special Expedition for Underwater Works" —Special-Purpose Underwater Rescue Party, was a government agency of the Soviet Union ...
, while he took up a post of consultant and historian. From this time Armenian scientist was studying archaeological underwater monuments. Beginning from 1937 to 1939 he organized a series of underwater archeology expeditions to the
Black Sea and other water basins. The during his science activities professor Orbeli created a method of keeping monuments that were risen out of water. He also introduced the term of underwater archaeology in science
[А. Н. Мельни]
Предисловие к фрагментам из социально-богословского наследия профессора Р. А. Орбели
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Ruben Orbeli died on 9 May 1943. He was buried in an Armenian cemetery in Moscow.
See also
* Orbeli family
The Orbeli family is an Armenian family, whose members have included notable scientists for over 12 centuries. The president of Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Osipov and the president of Armenian National Academy of Sciences Faddey Sarkisyan, re ...
References
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1880 births
1943 deaths
Soviet archaeologists
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
People from Nakhchivan
Armenian archaeologists
20th-century archaeologists