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Anahide Ter Minassian
French historian (1929–2019) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian (26 August 1929 – 11 February 2019) was a French historian of Armenian origin who specialised in modern Armenian history, particularly the pre- and post-Soviet period of Armenian history, and the Armenian revolutionary movement.[1]
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Life
Ter Minassian was born in Paris in 1929. Her stateless Armenian parents were Levon Kévonian and Armenouhie Der-Garabédian, who taught her Armenian and refused to send her to a French school until she was seven. She would in time marry the son of Armenian statesman Ruben Ter-Minasian, Leon Ter Minassian,[1] who was also a stateless Armenian. They had four children, including historian Taline Ter Minassian.[2]
She went to the Sorbonne where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and at Paris I University.[2] In 1969 she went to work at the Sorbonne.[3]
After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the légion d'honneur in 2015.[4]
Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019.[1] In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian.[5]
Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian (born 1942), is also a specialist in Armenian history.[6]
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Works
- La Question Arménienne (Marseille, 1983)[7]
- Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887-1912) (Cambridge, Mass., 1984)
- 1918-1920-La République d’Arménie (Bruxelles, 1989, 2006)
- Histoires croisées: diaspora, Arménie, Transcaucasie (Marseille, 1997)
- Smyrne, la ville oubliée?: mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930 (editions Autrement, 2006)
- Nos terres d’enfance, l’Arménie des souvenirs, avec Houri Varjabédian (Marseille, 2010)
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References
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