ABRAMJAN (Abramian), Ruben Tadesovič (Arm. Ruben T‘adēosi Abrahamyan). Gnišik, Turkish Armenia 9.(21.)2.1881 — 26.10.1951. Armenian Iranian and Armenian Scholar. Son of a civil servant. After gymnasium in Yerevan studied at Kiev, Leipzig and St.Petersburg, in 1911 graduated from Oriental Faculty in St. Petersburg. In 1912-21 teacher in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then in Tabriz, New Julia and Tehran, now became interested in Iranian studies. Ph.D. 1935 Sorbonne. In 1935-46 he taught at the new Tehran University, in 1946-51 naučnyj sotrudnik at Linguistic Institute of Armenian Academy of Science. He worked on Armenian, Persian and Pehlevi.
Publications: At least 20 items, i.a.:
– Diss. Dialectes des Israélites de Hamadan et d’Ispahan et dialecte de Baba Tahir. 173 p. Paris 1935.
– In Armenian: Firdausi and his Shahname. 157 p. Tehran 1934; in Persian: Manual of Pehlevi Language. 82 p. Tehran 1937; translated & commented Arta viraf namak – Jušti Fran. 165 p. Yerevan (Armenian Acad.) 1958.
– Pehlevijsko-persidsko-armjano-russko-anglijskij slovar’. 338 p. Yerevan 1965 (with p. 253-338, a Pehlevi grammar in Russian and Armenian).
– Further works in Persian and Armenian.
Sources: Miliband 1977, 1995; J. Maroukian, Encyclop. Iranica 2000 (online 2018); Wikipedia.
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