Stepanos Nazarian

Stepanos Nazarian
Stepanos Nazarian
	Stepanos Nazarian
Born	May 27, 1812; Tiflis, Russian Empire
Died	May 9, 1879 (aged 66); Moscow, Russian Empire
Nationality	Armenian-Russian
Alma mater	University of Tartu
Occupation	publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist
Organization	Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages

Stepanos Nazarian (Armenian: Ստեփանոս Նազարյան, Russian: Степанос Исаевич Назарян, 27 May [O.S. 15 May] 1812, in Tiflis – 9 May [O.S. 27 April] 1879, in Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian publisher, enlightener, historian of literature and orientalist.

Biography

He was born in the family of a priest. Graduated from the department of philosophy in the University of Tartu in 1840. In 1849 he became a professor of Persian and Arab literature in Moscow in the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. He published a number of scholarly works and earned his doctoral dissertation on a work analyzing Ferdowsi's Shahnameh.

Under the influence of the European enlightenment movement and the Russian social movement of the 1940s, Nazarian increasingly began writing against the feudal system and its ideology. In the 1950s he became the leader of the Armenian enlightenment movement. Between 1858 and 1864 he published in Moscow the influential magazine Hyusisapayl (Aurora Borealis), that had a great effect on the development of progressive public thought in Armenia. He criticized serfdom and clerical power for the spiritual revival of the Armenian people; however, he refused to classify his actions as part of a broader class struggle. Nazarian advanced the idea of public education in the new enlightenment era as well as the replacement of Classical Armenian (grabar) with the new literary Ashkarhabar. He was a supporter of deism and promoted Russian and foreign literature. Translated many of Friedrich Schiller's dramas.

gollark: > and thus define human breeding as an inherent functionAnyway, you seem to just be defining it as one, and I'm not sure what you're trying to say by that beyond that having children... is a thing we can do, and one which evolution selects for to some degree. That doesn't make it *the right thing to do* all the time.

gollark: Grow children in vacuum tubes then, but not vacuums.

gollark: Also hi.

gollark: Yes, just grow children in vats, it really sidesteps all these issues.

gollark: But we don't need everyone to maximize their child count...

References

Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 1974
A. J. Hacikyan; Gabriel Basmajian; Edward S. Franchuk; Nourhan Ouzounian, eds. (2005). The Heritage of Armenian Literature volume III:From the eighteenth century to modern times. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 219–222. ISBN 0814332218.
Stepanos Nazarian at Find a Grave

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.