Portrait of Alishan from his 1901 book Hayapatum (Armenian history)
Church
Catholic Church
Personal details
Born
(1820-07-06)July 6, 1820
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died
November 9, 1901(1901-11-09) (aged 81) Venice, Kingdom of Italy
Denomination
Armenian Catholic
Residence
San Lazzaro degli Armeni
Ghevont Alishan[a] (Armenian: Ղեւոնդ Ալիշան; July 18 [O.S. July 6], 1820 – November 22 [O.S. November 9], 1901) was an Armenian Catholic priest, historian, educator and poet. He was a prolific author throughout his long career and gained recognition from Armenians and European academic circles for his contributions to Armenian literature and scholarship.
Born to an Armenian Catholic family in Constantinople, he received his education at the academy of the Armenian Catholic Mekhitarist Congregation on Saint Lazarus Island in Venice and joined the order in 1840. Between 1840 and 1872, he held a number of teaching and administrative positions in his order's educational institutions in Venice and Paris. During this period, he gained renown as a poet, writing mainly in Classical Armenian on both patriotic and religious themes. He is regarded as one of the first Armenian Romantic poets.
After 1872, Alishan devoted himself completely to his scholarly work. He notably wrote a number of long works on the historical provinces of Armenia and prepared for publication many old Armenian texts. Most of his works are in Armenian, but he also wrote in, and was translated into, French, English and Italian.
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GhevontAlishan (Armenian: Ղեւոնդ Ալիշան; July 18 [O.S. July 6], 1820 – November 22 [O.S. November 9], 1901) was an Armenian Catholic priest, historian...
Ghevont is an Armenian given name. Notable people with the name include: GhevontAlishan, ordained Armenian Catholic priest, historian and a poet Ghevont...
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Galstian, a World War II general and native of the town. According to GhevontAlishan, the old name of the village is "Chlofkhan or Chalovkhan", and was...
between the first and sixth centuries. Some like Shahkhatunian and GhevontAlishan suggested that these reliefs were created before the invention of the...
Tehran, Iran, on March 4, 1951. A descendant of the Armenian writer GhevontAlishan (1820–1901), he developed an interest in literature at an early age...
to be a more probable subject than Aphrodite. The Armenian scholar GhevontAlishan, in his 1890 book Ayrarat, insisted that the head represents Anahit...
musician Edward Stanger – Pastor at Holy Infant Catholic Church, Ballwin GhevontAlishan – Priest of the Armenian Catholic Church who designed Armenia's first...
ceased to exist for some time. The Armenian Catholic priest Father GhevontAlishan created a new flag for Armenia in 1885, after the Armenian Students...
Father GhevontAlishan for the Armenian Diaspora in France Late 19th century Second flag of the Armenian Diaspora designed by Father GhevontAlishan (Mekhitarist...
the Armenians is called Hayk‘. The 18th- and 19th-century scholars GhevontAlishan and Mikayel Chamchian, using different methods, calculated the date...
Tricolor proposal (1996) Tchitundo-Hulu Sun proposal (2003) In 1885, GhevontAlishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags...
point in 1773 when a group of Armenian monks under the direction of GhevontAlishan, a follower of Mechitar, publicly seceded from the Armenian Apostolic...
and GhevontAlishan founded Bazmavep, the very first Armenian scholarly journal. Ivan Aivazovsky Armenians in Ukraine Armenians in Crimea "Ghevont Alishan...
of the origin of the name Zangezur. According to Armenian scholar GhevontAlishan, Zangezur is derived from the name of Dzagadzor fortress (now a village...
Moorat-Raphael in Venice where he developed his literary talent under GhevontAlishan. He returned to Constantinople in 1858 and started working for the...
mention is made by the 19th century historian, philologist-geographer GhevontAlishan, who thinks that the name of the village must have come from Baberd...
and in so doing, have been the saviors of the Armenian race. Father GhevontAlishan was a member of the Mkhitarist Congregation in Venice. In 1885, Armenian...
including: World War II memorial of Nubarashen, erected in 1973, Bust of GhevontAlishan, erected in 2004, Kackhkar memorial for the victims of the First Nagorno-Karabakh...
without a trace. The inscription survives as a copy in an 1890 book by GhevontAlishan: Dan Martin, a scholar of Tibet, wrote that the three-syllable mantra...
Shahaziz, The Old Yerevan (Հին Երևանը), pp. 174-175 (in Armenian) GhevontAlishan, Ayrarat (Այրարատ), p. 293 (in Russian) Административно-территориальное...
1251–1273) is buried nearby in the settlement of Yeghegis. Scholar GhevontAlishan considered the name to be purely folkloric in origin and referred to...
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