Stepan Malkhasyants

Stepan Malkhasyants
Born(1857-11-07)November 7, 1857
Akhaltsikhe, Russian Empire
DiedJuly 21, 1947(1947-07-21) (aged 89)
Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Known forArmenian Explanatory Dictionary
AwardsStalin Prize (1946)
Scientific career
FieldsPhilology, Armenian studies, Oriental Studies
InstitutionsArmenian Academy of Sciences

Stepan Sargsi Malkhasyants (Armenian: Ստեփան Սարգսի Մալխասյանց; November 7 [O.S. October 25] 1857 – July 21, 1947) was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. An expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasyants created the critical editions and translated the works of many classical Armenian historians into modern Armenian and contributed seventy years of his life to the advancement of the study of the Armenian language.