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Kerovbe Patkanian or Kerope Petrovich Patkanov (Armenian: Քերովբէ Պատկանեան,[a] Russian: Керопэ́ Петро́вич Патка́нов;[b] 16 May [O.S. 4 May] 1833 – 14 April [O.S. 2 April] 1889) was a Russian Armenian philologist, linguist, orientalist, and historian who served as Professor of Armenian Studies at the Saint Petersburg Imperial University.[1] He was born in Nakhichevan-on-Don (today part of Rostov-on-Don) into a noted family of scholars and educators. He published a number of works of medieval Armenian literature, some for the first time.
Biography
editKerovbe Patkanian was born in Nakhichevan-on-Don (today part of Rostov-on-Don) into a noted Armenian family of scholars and educators. His father, Petros Patkanian, was a priest, and his mother was the daughter of the educator and author Harutyun Alamdarian. He was the first cousin of writer Raphael Patkanian. He graduated from the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow, the University of Dorpat, and the Main Pedagogical Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1857. In 1860, he studied Armenian manuscripts in the libraries of Venice, Munich, Paris and Vienna. In 1861, he then joined the staff of the Department of Armenian Literature of the Saint Petersburg Imperial University, first as an (adjunct) professor and as a full professor after 1872.[2] In 1863, he successfully defended his master's thesis titled Opyt istorii dinastii Sasanidov po svedeniyam, soobshchayemym armyanskimi pisatelyami (An attempt at a history of the Sasanian dynasty according to the information reported by Armenian authors). In 1864, he obtained a doctoral degree for his work Issledovaniye o sostave armyanksogo yazyka (A study of the structure of the Armenian language).[3] He published a number of works of medieval Armenian literature, including for the first time the works of Grigor Aknertsi (1870) and Mkhitar Anetsi (1879). He also published new editions of the works of Mekhitar of Ayrivank (1867), Sebeos (1879), Faustus (1883), and Tovma Artsruni (1887), which were of a higher quality than previous publications.[1]
Selected works
edit- (1860) "Catalogue de la littérature arménienne, depuis le commencement du IV siècle jusque vers le milieu du XVII siècle" [Catalog of Armenian literature, from the beginning of the 4th century to the middle of the 17th century]. Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg (in French). 2: 49–91.
- Patkanian wrote a number of articles on Armenian geography, history and literature for the Russian encyclopedia Entsiklopedichesky slovar, sostavlenny russkimi uchyonymi i literatorami, published in 1861–1863.[4]
- (1861) Istorīia Agvan Moĭseia Kagankatvatsi, pisatelia X vieka Исторія Агванъ Мойсея Каганкатваци, писателя X вѣка. Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk. The first Russian translation of the Classical Armenian history of Caucasian Albania attributed to Movses Kaghankatvatsi.
- (1863) Opyt istorīi dinastīi Sasanidov po sviedienіiam, soobshchaemym armianskimi pisateliami Опытъ исторіи династіи Сасанидовъ по свѣдѣніямъ, сообщаемымъ армянскими писателами [An attempt at a history of the Sasanian dynasty according to the information reported by Armenian authors]. Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk.
- (1869) Izsliedovanīe o dīalektakh armianskago iazyka: Filologicheskīĭ opyt Изслѣдованіе о діалектахъ армянскаго языка. Филологическій опытъ [Study of the dialects of the Armenian language: a philological attempt] (PDF). Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk.
- (1877) Armianskaia geografīia VII vieka po R. Kh. (pripisyvavshaiasia Moiseiu Khorenskomu) Армянская географія VII вѣка по Р. Х. (приписывавшаяся Моисею Хоренскому) [Armenian geography of the 7th century AD (attributed to Movses Khorenatsi)]. Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk. Publication of the original Armenian text and Russian translation of the work of geography Ashkharhatsuyts (formerly attributed to Movses Khorenatsi). Patkanian was the first to suggest Anania Shirakatsi as the likely author of this work.[5]
- (1880) Bibliograficheskīĭ ocherk armianskoĭ istoricheskoĭ literatury Библиографическій очеркъ армянской исторической литературы [Bibliographical outline of Armenian historical literature] (PDF). Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk.
- (1887) Tsygany: Nieskolʹko slov o nariechiiakh zakavkazskikh tsygan: bosha i karachi Цыганы: Нѣсколько словъ о нарѣчіяхъ закавказскихъ цыганъ: боша и карачи [Gypsies: a few words about the dialects of the Transcaucasian Gypsies: Bosha and Karachi]. Saint Petersburg: Tipografīia Imperatorskoĭ Akademīi nauk.
Note
edit- ^ Reformed orthography: Քերովբե Պատկանյան
- ^ Керопэ Петровичъ Паткановъ in pre-reform Russian orthography
References
edit- ^ a b Sanjian, Ara (1 September 2012). "Armenian Medieval Historians in Print" (PDF). The Armenian Weekly. p. 16. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
- ^ "Patkanovy". Great Russian Encyclopedia (in Russian). 2017. Archived from the original on 23 January 2023. Retrieved 22 July 2024.
- ^ Tigranov, Gr. (1902). "Patkanov, Keropė Petrovich". In Polovtsov, A. A. (ed.). Russkīi bīograficheskīi slovarʹ Русскій бiографическій словарь [Russian Biographical Dictionary] (in Russian). Vol. 13. Saint Petersburg: Tip. I. N. Skorokhodova. pp. 369–371.
- ^ Veselovsky, Yu. "Patkanov, Keropė Petrovich". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Vol. 23. Saint Petersburg. pp. 9–10.
- ^ Hewsen, Robert H. (1992). The Geography of Ananias of Širak (Ašxarhac῾oyc῾): The Long and the Short Recensions. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag. p. 8. ISBN 3-88226-485-3.
Further reading
edit- Akopian, E. A. (1975). Keropė Patkanian: zhiznʹ i tvorchestvo Керопэ Патканян: жизнь и творчество [Kerope Patkanian: life and work] (in Russian). Erevan: Izdatelʹstvo AN Armianskoĭ SSR. OCLC 22358994.
- Emin, N. O. (1874). Professor Patkanov kak orīentalist Профессоръ Паткановъ какъ орiенталистъ [Professor Patkanov as an orientalist] (in Russian). Vienna: Imprimerie de Charles Gerold Fils.
- Marr, N. Ia. (1989). "Patkanov, Keropė (Kheruvim) Petrovich" Паткановъ, Керопэ (Херувим) Петровичъ. Biograficheskīĭ slovarʹ professorov i prepodavateleĭ S.-Peterburgskago universiteta za istekshuiu tretʹiu chetvertʹ vieka ego sushchestvovanīia: 1869-1894 Біографическій словарь профессоровъ и преподавателей Императорскаго С.-Петербургскаго университета за истекшую третью четверть вѣка его существованія: 1869-1894 [Biographical dictionary of professors and lectures of the Imperial University of Saint Petersburg for the last third of a century of its existence: 1869–1894] (in Russian). Vol. 2. Saint Petersburg: Tip. B. M. Vol'fa. pp. 89-97. Includes a bibliography of Patkanian's works.
- Obituary in Istorichesky Vestnik, vol. XXXVI, 1889, p. 748 (in Russian).
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