Saint Mesrob
Saint Mesrop Mashtots (also Mesrob, Mashtotz, Armenian: Մեսրոբ Մաշտոց, 360 - February 17, 440) was an Armenian Christian monk. He invented the Armenian alphabet in the year 406. He was a theologian and linguist. This invention was a basic and important step in strengthening three things for the Armenian identity: the Armenian Church, the government of the Armenian Kingdom, and connections between the Armenian Kingdom and Armenians living in the Byzantine and Iranian Empires. [1] He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity.[2] He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and Georgian alphabets by some scholars.[3][4][5][6][7]
Movies
- 1988: Mesrop Mashtots Film documentary Armenfilm 35mm, color (Մաշտոց) Director Levon Mkrtchyan,script by Artashes Martirosyan,the composer Sarkis Alajajyan,narration by Sos Sargisyan.
Saint Mesrob Media
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A depiction of Mashtots in Kapan's St. Mesrop Mashtots Church
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A Soviet-era sculpture of Mashtots in Yerevan
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Mesrop in a 1776 Armenian manuscript
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Verses of Mesrop Mashtots.
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Gravesite of Mesrop Mashtots in the village of Oshakan
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A panel painting of Mashtots by Van Khachatur (1958–59) at the entrance hall of the Armenian Academy of Sciences headquarters in Yerevan.[8]
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Mashtots on a 1,000 dram bill
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The fresco inside the Oshakan church. Mashtots is depicted standing, to the left of the window.
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The statue of Mesrop Mashtots in front of the Matenadaran (1962).
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The statue of Mashtots and Sahak in front of Yerevan State University, erected in 2002.
References
- ↑ St. Mesrop MashtotsArmenian theologian and linguistEncyclopedia Britannica
- ↑ Hacikyan, Agop Jack; Basmajian, Gabriel; Franchuk, Edward S.; Ouzounian, Nourhan (2000). The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Oral Tradition to the Golden Age. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780814328156.
- ↑ Glen Warren Bowersock; Peter Robert Lamont Brown; Oleg Grabar, eds. (1999). Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
- ↑ Rayfield, Donald (2000). The Literature of Georgia: A History (2nd rev. ed.). Surrey: Curzon Press. p. 19. ISBN 0700711635.
- ↑ Grenoble, Lenore A. (2003). Language policy in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer Acad. Publ. p. 116. ISBN 1402012985.
- ↑ Bowersock, G.W.; Brown, Peter; Grabar, Oleg, eds. (1999). Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
- ↑ Jost, Gippert (2011). "The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests". Die Entstehung der kaukasischen Alphabete als kulturhistorisches Phänomen: Referate des internationalen Symposions (Wien, 1.-4. Dezember 2005) = The creation of the Caucasian alphabets as phenomenon of cultural history. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. pp. 39–50. ISBN 9783700170884.
- ↑ Ghazarian 1962, p. 69.