Verjine Svazlian | |
---|---|
Armenian: Վերժինե Սվազլյան | |
Born | Alexandria, Egypt | March 1, 1934
Nationality | Armenian |
Alma mater | Yerevan Khachatour AbovianArmenian State Pedagogical University |
Awards | Honorary Worker of Science of Armenia |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Ethnography Folklore |
Institutions | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia The Armenian Genocide Museum-institute |
Verjine Svazlian (Armenian: Վերժինե Սվազլյան, March 1, 1934) is an Armenian ethnographer and folklorist, historian, genocide scholar, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of NAS RA, Doctor of Philology, Professor. Honoured Scientists of the Armenia (2016).[1] Svazlian saved from a total loss the various folklore relics communicated, in different dialects, by the Armenians forcibly exiled from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia to the various countries of the world and finally repatriated to Armenia.