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
A depiction of Mashtots in Kapan's St. Mesrop Mashtots Church
A Soviet-era sculpture of Mashtots in Yerevan
Mesrop in a 1776 Armenian manuscript
Verses of Mesrop Mashtots.
Gravesite of Mesrop Mashtots in the village of Oshakan
A panel painting of Mashtots by Van Khachatur (1958–59) at the entrance hall of the Armenian Academy of Sciences headquarters in Yerevan.[8]
Mashtots on a 1,000 dram bill
The fresco inside the Oshakan church. Mashtots is depicted standing, to the left of the window.
The statue of Mesrop Mashtots in front of the Matenadaran (1962).
The statue of Mashtots and Sahak in front of Yerevan State University, erected in 2002.
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References
- ↑ St. Mesrop MashtotsArmenian theologian and linguistEncyclopedia Britannica
- ↑ Hacikyan, Agop Jack. The Heritage of Armenian Literature: From the Oral Tradition to the Golden Age (2000). Detroit: Wayne State University Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780814328156.
- ↑ Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World (1999)Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
- ↑ Rayfield, Donald. The Literature of Georgia: A History (2000). Surrey: Curzon Press. p. 19. ISBN 0700711635.
- ↑ Grenoble, Lenore A.. Language policy in the Soviet Union (2003). Dordrecht [u.a.]: Kluwer Acad. Publ.. p. 116. ISBN 1402012985.
- ↑ Late antiquity: a guide to the postclassical world (1999). Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press. p. 289. ISBN 0-674-51173-5.
- ↑ Jost, Gippert. 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 (2011). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. p. 39–50. ISBN 9783700170884.
- ↑ Ghazarian 1962, p. 69.