Joseph Orbeli (Armenian: Հովսեփ Աբգարի Օրբելի, Hovsep Abgari Orbeli; Russian: Иосиф Абгарович Орбели, romanized: Iosif Abgarovich Orbeli; 20 March (O.S. 8 March) 1887 – 2 February 1961) was a Soviet-Armenian orientalist, public figure and academician who specialized in medieval history of Transcaucasia and administered the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad from 1934 to 1951. He was the founder and first president of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (1943–47).[1]
^(in Armenian) Yuzbashyan, Karen «Օրբելի, Հովսեփ Աբգարի» [Orbeli, Hovsep Abgari] Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1986, vol. 12, pp. 584–585.
Orbeli generally refers to: House of Orbeli, the powerful family in the 12th and 13th century Georgia Orbeli family, is an Armenian family House of Orbeliani...
one of authors project Independent Armenia under Russian patronage.» JosephOrbeli (1887—1961) — Armenian and Soviet orientalist, historian, and academician...
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were JosephOrbeli, Stepan Malkhasyants, Ivan Gevorkian and Victor Ambartsumian; Orbeli became the first president of the academy. JosephOrbeli (1943–1947)...
the epic were the philologist Manuk Abeghian in Armenia and academic JosephOrbeli at the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad, who argued that there are no characters...
(1886–1962), poet and journalist Sev Ohanian (born 1987), screenwriter JosephOrbeli (1887–1961), Orientalist George Ouzounian (known as "Maddox") (born...
des tapis qu'on nomme qali du nom abrege de la ville". Academician JosephOrbeli directly writes that word "karpet" is of Armenian origin. Between the...
during World War I, Kurdish was first taught as a university course by JosephOrbeli. The modern historian Sacha Alsancakli explains that the term "kurdology"...
– the first president of the Polish government-in-exile, 1939–1947 JosephOrbeli (1887–1961) – orientalist David Kakabadze (1889–1952) – Georgian painter...
of the Orbeli brothers, is dedicated to the Armenian scholars Ruben, Leon and JosephOrbeli; Leon Orbeli was born in Tsaghkadzor. Ruben Orbeli was the...
brother of Joseph and Leon Orbeli, and Rusadan Orbeli's father. Born into a medieval noble family in Nakhchivan, Russian Empire in 1880. Ruben Orbeli completed...
result of a letter to Stalin from the deputy director of the Hermitage, JosephOrbeli, protesting the sale of Russia's treasures. The director of the Hermitage...
The House-museum of Brothers Orbeli in Tsaghkadzor, is dedicated to the Armenian scientists Ruben, Levon and JosephOrbeli. The town of Yeghvard has a...
Kalantar, a participant of Marr's excavation campaigns. At the behest of JosephOrbeli, the saved items were consolidated into a museum collection; they are...
rom Sarduri II's inscriptions found at Van by Armenian archeologist JosephOrbeli in 1912: I went to the country of Mannai, I conquered the country, I...
hunger during the siege in 1941. Shortly before his death he remarked to JosephOrbeli: "I am so glad, that science continues to develop with us even under...
depths of the rock. The text at the gate was discovered in 1916 by JosephOrbeli during the work of a Russian archaeological expedition. The inscription...
Museum and the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Armenia, whose director is JosephOrbeli. During the excavations around the castle, the baths, the secret passage...
the new Kurdology section of the faculty (Kurdskij Kabinet), "which JosephOrbeli had established in 1959". Blau 2006. Blau, Joyce (2006). "KURDOEV, QENĀTĒ"...
(1863–1961), historian Sirarpie Der-Nersessian (1896–1989), art historian JosephOrbeli (1887–1961), Orientalist Josef Markwart (1864–1930), historian, orientalist...
English checkmate. In their 1936 book on the history of chess, historians JosephOrbeli and Kamilla Trever suggest that chess was known in Armenia since at...
postgraduate. During these years, under the leadership of Nicholas Marr and JosephOrbeli, he became deeply involved in Armenology and studied the achievements...
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