Mesrop Vayotsdzoretsi ( Armenian Մեսրոպ Վայոցձորեցի ), also Mesrop Yerets ( Armenian Մեսրոպ Երեց ), is an Armenian writer, a church figure of the X century [1] .
| Mesrop Vayotszoretsi | |
|---|---|
| Մեսրոպ Վայոցձորեցի | |
| Date of Birth | X century |
| Date of death | X century |
| Scientific field | writer |
Life and work
Born in the village of Okhotsmants, Vayots Dzor region [2] . He was a priest , ecclesiologist [3] . In 967 he wrote The History of St. Nerses Parteva "( Armenian " Պատմութիւն սրբոյն Ներսէսի Պարթևի " [4] . In addition to literary significance, the work of Vayotsdzoretsi is also an important historical source for the period of the middle of the 4th century. In addition to the life and work of Nerses the Great , the story of the Mamikonyan family [] The so-called “Nersesovskiy Gakhnamak” [5] , where the names of 167 Armenian princely families appear (as opposed to about 70 in other versions of “ Gakhnamak ”), also describes the difficult situation of the Armenian state of the 4th century, and the way out floor Vayotszoretsi links the births with Christian Rome and the joint struggle of Armenians and Georgians against Sasanian Persia.The work came to us in the manuscripts of the XII century [6] , and was twice published already in the XVIII century (in 1737 in Constantinople under the title "History of the life and death of the deceased of St. Nerses the Great ”( Armenian “ Պատմութիւն վարուց եւ մահւան երանելի առն Աստուծոյ Սրբոյն Մեծին Ներսէսի ” ) [2] and in 1775 in Madras , under the title“ Fragmentary history of Armenia and Georgia ”( "Պատմութիւն մնացորդաց Հայոց եւ Վրաց" ) [3] .
Notes
- ↑ G.P. Khomizuri (2002), Armenian Apostolic Church: saints, martyrs, prominent clergy, theologians, Christian cultural figures , Moscow
- ↑ 1 2 3 Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Մեսրոպ Երեց , Volume 7, p. 469, Yerevan, 1981,
- ↑ 1 2 HGO Dwight, Catalog of all works known to exist in the Armenian language, of a date earlier than the seventeenth century. Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 3, 1853
- ↑ A. Madoyan (1969), A Vision of Nerses the Great in medieval Armenian poetry , Պատմա-բանասիրական հանդես, No. 4. p. 237-247
- ↑ G. Sargissian, A. Hakobian (2012), The newly-unearthed city site of Karkar in Artsakh , Duty of Soul, No. 5, ISSN 1829-2003
- ↑ KB Bardakjian (2000), A Reference Guide to Modern Armenian Literature, 1500-1920 , Wayne State University Press, 714 pp., C, -37