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Grigor Ghapantsyan

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'''Grigor Ghapantsyan''' (1887 - 1956) was an Armenian linguist and philologist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the [[Academy of Sciences of Armenia]], Honored Scientist of the Armenian SSR.<ref>Yerevan State University Notable Scholars and Prominent Figures/Compiled by K. Grigoryan. Yerevan, YSU Press, 2020, p. 47.</ref>

==Biography==
Ghapantsyan was born on January 1, 1887 in [[Ashtarak]]. He received primary education in Ashtarak, then studied in [[Saint Petersburg]]. In 1913 he graduated from the Department of Armenian-Georgian Philology of the Faculty of Oriental Languages of [[St. Petersburg University]], returned to Armenia and up to 1918 conducted various courses in the field of the Armenian Studies at the [[Gevorgian Seminary]] in [[Echmiadzin]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/3iF7LIC Grigor Ghapantsyan]</ref> In May of 1918 he took an active part in the [[Battle of Sardarapat]]. In 1921 he was invited to [[Yerevan State University]], where he headed the Department of General Linguistics for many years, teaching Old Armenian, historical-comparative grammar of Armenian, Urartian, general linguistics.

In 1943 he was elected a founding member of the newly established Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR and was elected Academic Secretary of the Department of Social Sciences. In 1950 - 1956 he was the Director of the Language Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2FfBxoB Капанцян Григорий Айвазович, Sci.am]</ref> He died in on May 3, 1956, in Yerevan. His bronze bust is placed in the lobby of YSU Main Building. A commemorative plaque is attached to the wall of the building No. 32 on Abovyan Street in Yerevan.

Grigor Ghapantsyan Museum was opened in 1987.<ref>[https://ift.tt/3alEW0B Grigor Ghapantsyan Museum]</ref>

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[[Category:1887 births]]
[[Category:1956 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ashtarak]]
[[Category:Linguists from Armenia]]
[[Category:Armenian academics]]
[[Category:Armenian scientists]]
[[Category:Yerevan State University faculty]]
[[Category:Soviet Armenians]]


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