1963 statue of Anania Shirakatsi holding a globe at the entrance of the Matenadaran
Born
c. 610
Shirak, Ayrarat,[1] Sasanian Armenia
Died
c. 685 (aged around 75)
Arminiya
Nationality
Armenian
Era
Early Middle Ages
School
Hellenizing School
Main interests
Mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology
Anania Shirakatsi (Old Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia—the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer,[2][3] and cosmographer.[4]
A part of the Armenian Hellenizing School and one of the few secular scholars in medieval Armenia, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trebizond. He composed science textbooks and the first known geographic work in classical Armenian (Ashkharhatsuyts),[5] which provides detailed information about Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus (Georgia and Caucasian Albania).
In mathematics, his accomplishments include the earliest known table of results of the four basic operations,[3][6] the earliest known collection of recreational math puzzles and problems,[7] and the earliest book of math problems in Armenian.[8] He also devised a system of mathematical notation based on the Armenian alphabet, although he was the only writer known to have used it.
AnaniaShirakatsi (Old Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher...
English sources, is an early medieval Armenian geography attributed to AnaniaShirakatsi. It believed to have been written sometime between 610 and 636. According...
perfect roundness on all sides." The 7th-century Armenian scholar AnaniaShirakatsi described the world as "being like an egg with a spherical yolk (the...
Shirak or Anania Shirakatsi (610–685), Armenian mathematician and astronomer of 7th century Ananias I of Armenia (died 968) Ananias (Jafaridze) (born...
erroneously called them Amariacae (Ἀμαριάκαι). The Armenian geographer AnaniaShirakatsi mentions Anariacae (‘Anariaki’ in Armenian) among the people inhabiting...
Armenian Orthodox New Testament. It was not part of the canon list of AnaniaShirakatsi in the 7th century but is part of the canon lists of Hovhannes Imastaser...
the Ashkharhatsuyts, a seventh-century atlas commonly attributed to AnaniaShirakatsi. Yeremian was born into a family of laborers in Tiflis, in 1908 and...
Iazyges Alanic tribe dwelling near modern Georgia by the time of AnaniaShirakatsi (7th century AD). Iron in the east and south form a larger group of...
such as Movses Khorenatsi, Agathangelos, Eznik of Kolb, Sebeos, and AnaniaShirakatsi, as well as in oral folk traditions. The pantheon of pre-Christian...
is married and has a son and a daughter. AnaniaShirakatsi Medal (Republic of Artsakh, 2016) AnaniaShirakatsi Medal (Armenia, 2017) Medal for Contribution...
philosophical value that were to be found, including the works of AnaniaShirakatsi, and translations from Callimachus, Andronicus of Rhodes and Olympiodorus...
that rises for more than 1 km. Hewsen, Robert H.; AnaniaShirakatsi (1992). The Geography of Ananias of Širak: Ašxarhacʻoycʻ, the Long and the Short Recensions...
and Otene in Greek sources. According to the Armenian geographer AnaniaShirakatsi's Ashkharatsuyts ("Geography", 7th century), Utik was the 12th among...
(the Merciful) becomes patriarch of Alexandria (approximate date). AnaniaShirakatsi, Armenian astronomer (d. 685) Barbatus, bishop of Benevento (approximate...
May 20 – Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria Æthelwealh, king of Sussex AnaniaShirakatsi, Armenian astronomer (b. 610) Beornhæth, Anglo-Saxon nobleman Centwine...
geographical provenance, e.g. Movses Khorenatsi (from Khoren) and AnaniaShirakatsi (from Shirak). The prefix Տեր ([ter]), which comes from how one addresses...
of six medieval Armenian scholars, Toros Roslin, Grigor Tatevatsi, AnaniaShirakatsi, Movses Khorenatsi, Mkhitar Gosh, and Frik, were erected in front...
appears the general Greek name for Tzanni. According to Geography of AnaniaShirakatsi of the 7th century, Colchis (Yeger in Armenian sources, same as Lazica)...
Armenia. He received numerous decorations for his work including AnaniaShirakatsi medal from the President of Armenia. Levon Vrami Harutyunyan was born...
was given in the Armenian geography index Ashharatsuyts written by AnaniaShirakatsi in the 7th century AD. According to the original Ashharatsuyts mapping...
Hephthalite (Alchon Huns) control, according to Chinese pilgrims. AnaniaShirakatsi states in his Ashkharatsuyts, written in 7th century, that one of...
in eastern Turkey. The Armenian chroniclers Movses Khorenatsi and AnaniaShirakatsi wrote about vishaps (water dragons in Armenian mythology) living in...
(c. 579 – c. 649) (Greek) Maximus the Confessor (580–662) (Greek) AnaniaShirakatsi (c. 610 – c. 685) (Armenian) Isaac of Nineveh (d. 700) (Syriac) Jacob...
"reaper of vishaps" or "dragon-reaper." The 7th-century Armenian author AnaniaShirakatsi relates a myth where Vahagn steals some straw from Barsham (i.e.,...
as Urbatagirk, the Book of Lamentations and an arithmetic book by AnaniaShirakatsi. Australia Mobility bureau^proberts The pavilion consists of three...
also be found in the 7th-century geography work Ashkharatsuyts by AnaniaShirakatsi, where the Kup'i Bulgar, Duč'i Bulkar, Olxontor Błkar and immigrant...
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