Martiros Kavoukjian (, ', August 8, 1908 - August 8, 1988) was an

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architect, researcher, Armenologist and historian-archaeologist who has written various books on ancient

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

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Biography

Martiros Kavoukjian was born in Nigde,

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on August 8, 1908. His family soon moved to

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, which was also at the time part of the Ottoman Empire. Kavoukjian graduated from the American University of

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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 Edgar C. Polomé, Alexander Jacob, George A. Bournoutian,

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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

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, Quebec.

Armenia, Subartu And Sumer

Kavoukjian's book ''Armenia, Subartu And Sumer'' is inspired by the

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. It seeks to establish an ethnic

identity for the "

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" mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani- Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-

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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 Robert Hewsen described it is as a "speculative but provocative study."

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 Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia (also rendered ''Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia''; , ''Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran''; ASE) is the first general encyclopedia in the Armenian language. It was published in 1974-1987 by the main editorial office of th ...

, 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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