Melikset-Beck, Levon Meliksetovich

Youth

Levon Meliksetovich Melikset-Bek was born on September 14, 1890 in Tiflis , in an Armenian family. After graduation, he entered Odessa University , studying in which in 1906 became a member of the "World League of Esperantists."

Scientific activity

After graduating from a university in 1913, he took up scientific activity, and a year later, in 1914, he became a corresponding member of the Odessa Society of History and Archeology . Returning to his native Tiflis, the young scientist continued to engage in science. From 1915 to 1918, Melikset-Beck was the scientific secretary of the board of the Tiflis Armenian National Society. In 1918, he was elected as a lecturer in the Armenian language of the newly founded Tiflis State University, where four years later passed his doctoral examinations in Armenian-Georgian-Greek philology, after which he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1928 on the book “Armenian Archimandrites of the Northern Countries” and their Identification in connection with the issues of the Armenian-Georgian relationship (experience of historical and literary research) ” ^[1] .

Then, from 1918 to 1922 , he held the position of scientific secretary, and then, from 1922 to 1927 , chairman of the Caucasian branch of the Moscow Archaeological Society. Melikset-Beck, in addition to scientific, since 1918, was also actively involved in teaching. Most of which he spent at Tbilisi University , where in 1932 he received the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences and the post of professor, he headed a number of scientific departments. He also taught at Yerevan University , Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute. A.S. Pushkin and other universities in Georgia. In 1941, the scientist was awarded the title “Honored Worker of Sciences of the Georgian SSR” and he became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR , and in 1945 Melikset-Beck was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

In 1960 , in connection with the 70th anniversary of Melikset-Bek, “The Complete Bibliography of Printing Works for 1909-1960” was published in Tbilisi . It included about 600 titles of publications, several dozen reviews of dissertations, two dozen translations of monuments of fiction in Armenian, Georgian and Russian languages ^[1] .

Levon Meliksetovich Melikset-Beck died on September 3, 1963 in the city of Tbilisi .

The main works of Levon Melikset-Bek are devoted to Armenian-Georgian historical, cultural and bibliographic relations, translations of Georgian sources about Armenia and Armenians, research and publication, history and culture of ancient and medieval Georgia. Author of a manual on the history of ancient Armenian literature.

The scientific issues raised by Levon Melikset-Beck significantly expanded the understanding of the relationship between cultures and peoples of the Christian East. Thanks to him, many literary monuments went beyond feudal particularism and became the property of neighboring countries and cultures ^[1] . Over five decades of scientific activity, scientists have published over 600 works, many of which are characterized by the importance of the problem raised, especially with regard to the study of the interaction of peoples and cultures of the countries of the Caucasus ^[2]

• Tbilisi University (1918-1968)
  • Lecturer (1918-1922)
  • Associate Professor (1922-1931)
  • Professor (1932-1968)
• Yerevan University (1936-1940)
• Tbilisi Pedagogical Institute A.S. Pushkin (1954-1960)

• Department of Oriental Languages ​​and Literature (1930-1933)
• Department of History of Transcaucasia and the Middle East (1933-1935)
• Department of Armenian Philology (1935-1968)

• Member of the World Esperanto League (1906)
• Corresponding Member of the Odessa Society of History and Archeology (1914)
• Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1941)
• Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR (1945)

• Legal status of the supreme patriarch of Armenia. Odessa, 1911
• From materials for the history of Armenians in the south of Russia. Tiflis, 1914
• The most ancient Pitsunda at Pontus of Euxinus. - 300, vol. XXXII, 1915, p. 109-122. Sep. print. Odessa
• Traces of Artavazd and Miter in Georgia. - Bulletin of the Scientific Institute of Armenia. No. 1-2. 1921-1922
• Introduction to the history of state formations of the South Caucasus. Yerevan, 1924
• The inscriptions of Kabep. - IKIAI, t. 3, 1925, p. 31–36
• Georgian sources about Armenia and Armenians, I, Yerevan, 1934.
• Georgian sources about Armenia and Armenians, vol. 2, Yerevan, 1934, p. 60 (in Armenian)
• Georgian translation of “History of Armenia” by Mikhail Chamchyan. Vestn. Museum of Georgia, VIII, 1935
• Newly discovered inscription in Sevan from 874 - In Sat: In memory of Acad. N. Ya. Marra. M. - L., 1938
• A new look at the origin of the name "Iveria". // Bulletin of the Caucasus Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society. 1916.T. XXIV.
• A review of sources on the history of Azerbaijan. - Baku, 1939, no. one.
• Mentioning Yerevan, “News of the Armenian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences”, 1940
• The history of the cross of Nina // Izvestia No. 9 (14), 1941. Yerevan
• Ancient Russia and Armenians.— “Proceedings of the Institute of the Language of the Academy of Sciences of Arm. SSR ”(in Armenian), Yerevan, 1946, v. 1, p. 138
• To the biography of the associate of Israel Ori Or Minas wardpet-1. (Dying days and an inventory of the property remaining after Minas.) “Proceedings of the Akal of Armenian Sciences. SSR ". Social Sciences, 1946, No I, p.
• To the question of the location of the Savsamor. - VDI, 1948, No 4
• On the real name of the enlightener of Georgia. Tiflis, 1914
• Publications of written sources on the history of Georgians. Catalog, vol. 1. Tb., 1949
• Avetik Isahakyan and Georgian literature. ' Izvestia (Acad. Sciences Arm. SSR). Societies. Science, 1951, No 4
• The Georgian version of the “History of the Orsels” by Stefanos Syuniksky // “Historical Bulletin”, vol. VI. Tbilisi, 1952
• Armenian inscriptions of Dmanisi. - Tiya AN Cargo of the Soviet Socialist Republic, I, 1954, pp. 153–161
• Georgian sources about Armenia and Armenians. Yerevan, 1955, vol. III p. 172
• On the history of the appearance of the Huns in eastern Transcaucasia. - “Reports of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR”, vol. XIII. Baku, 1957, No 6, pp. 709-713
• Melikset-Beck L. M. On the Genesis of the Armenian, Georgian and Albanian Alphabet. - Tr. Museum of the History of Azerbaijan, 1957, vol. II
• Khazars according to ancient Armenian sources in connection with the problem of Moses Khorensky // Studies on the history of culture of the peoples of the East. Collection in honor of Acad. I.A. Orbeli. M .; L., 1960.S. 1 13
• The first Achaemenids and the names of the rivers of Transcaucasia. “Proceedings of the Tbilisi state. Univ., vol. 91, series of oriental studies, vol. 2. Tbilisi, 1960.
• From the history of the Dukhobors in Georgia (XIX century). Tbilisi, 1964.
• To the interpretation of the name "Mat'arsi" of the Grem (Georgia) trilinga of the late 16th century - "Epigraphy of the East", 1966, [issue] 17, p. 72–78
• Armenians in Georgia // Caucasus and Byzantium. Vol. 1. Yerevan, 1979.P. 168 (in Armenian)

He was married, two sons. The youngest son is Yevgeny Leonovich Melikset-bek (nicknamed Tug) (born February 21, 1936, Tbilisi) - an international chess referee, one of the most famous and most respected chess judges in the USSR, and repeated referee of the USSR championships; graduated from Tbilisi State University ^{[3] [4]} .

• Profile of Levon Meliksetovich Melikset-Bek on the official website of the NAS RA