Gohar Muradyan | |
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 Gohar Muradyan in 2013 | |
| Born | October 28, 1957 |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Education | Leningrad State University |
| Known for | philologist, translator |
Gohar Muradyan (October 28, 1957, Yerevan) is an Armenian philologist and translator. She is a senior researcher and head of the Department for the Study of Translated Literature at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia. [1]
Muradyan was born on October 28, 1957, in Yerevan. From 1969 to 1974 she studied at the English School No. 172 in Yerevan, 1974-1979 she studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Leningrad State University, 1979-1982 she did her Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenian National Academy of Sciences (scientific advisor academician Gagik Sargsyan). Since 1982, Muradyan has been working at the Matenadaran, since 1998 as Senior Researcher, since 2014 she is the Head of the Department of Study and Translation of Old Texts. [2]
She has published critical editions of texts, monographs and articles on old Armenian translations from Greek.
In 1986 she defended her PhD: "The Book of Chreia and its Sources." From November 2001 she is member of AIEA ("Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes"). In 2005 shed defended her doctoral dissertation: "The Hellenizing School and Classical Armenian."
She has taken part in many international conferences, joint research projects, cooperating with authoritative research institutions: in 1996-1997 with the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main), in 1998 with the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, in 1999–2002, 2001–2004, 2005–2007 with the University of Geneva, in 2008–2009 with the Graz University, in 2007–2012 with the University of Nebraska. This cooperation resulted in monographs, articles and translations in Armenian, English, French and Russian.
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