AIEA 4U3t{Ut{Ut nhunhutubcnh U-hJ.Ug+U3h1, qtur{bÎUqgnhf}}"h1, CJ ASSOCTATION INTERNATIONALE DES ÉruoeS ARM ÉN IEN N ES I l-- NEWSLETTBR No 27 - 1998 ^f June rffi&i-YtrH:ç.ffi:;#;#;rt i rr-'..EY-r-t .4.-* t +nÊ x#i:lk#WH;et7s,-*g!-r.Ê+. 1ôrrb"l 4à :{i t:iL i:';F . CONTENTS Dirk van Damme, o.p. Obituary Dirk Van Damme 1 Le L1 janvier 1997 furent célé- De 1983 à 1985, il assuma la Obituary Babgën C'ugaszean 2 brées à Fribourg les obsèques du charge de Doyen de la Faculté de Instead of on Autobiography 5 Prof. Dfuk van Damme, o.p., Théologie. Obituary Hakob D. Pap'azyan 6 décédé des suites d'un cancer Il privilégiait d'un côté la littéra- Obituary Cyril Toumanoff I généralisé, qui avait donné lieu à ture grecque et les auteurs anté- Obituary Charles Dowsett 11, une intervention chirurgicale nicéens, de l'autre l'enseigne- Dr Thierry Patron Member of Aiea L2 fean-Michel aux poumons en juillet 1996. II ment des langues orientales, en Bibliography of jean-Michel Thierry's Armenological Studies 13 repose au cimetière Saint-Léo- particulier l'arménien, de sa Professor Dr. Edmund Schiitz Honoured 1.4 nard dans la sépulture commu- grammaire et littérature et des Discount for Aiea Members: From Byzantium to Iran. L4 nautaire New Aiea Secretary:Dr. Valentina Calzolari 't6 des Pères Dominicains techniques anciennes de la tra- de Election Results & Further Aiea Committee News 't6 Saint-Hyacinthe. duction. C'est pourquoi, il s'inté- Né le Proposed New Members 1.7 L5 avril 1934 à Anvers, en ressa d'abord au Ptolemée Aiea VIIIth General ConferenceVienna 1999 't7 Belgique, il fit, à Gand, ses études (1977), Polycarpe (1986, 1997), Armenian Studies 2004 L8 classiques (1945-1952) et son Justin, au Pseudo-Cyprien (1969, AIEA-AELAC Colloque sur la Littérature Apocryphe en Arménien 19 noviciat en tant que Dominicain 1983), aux grandes questions Compte Rendu du Colloque [Geneve,Sept. \ggZ]V. Calzolari 2l (1952). Il réalisa ses études de concernant les martyrs (L977, Etudes Armeniennes à Geneve 25 philosophie (1953-1956) et de 1980), les ministères anciens Armenian Studies in Perugia 27 théologie (1958-1961) chez les (1987, 1994, 1995) ou les rela- 30 Years of Armenian Studies at Hebrew University of ferusalem 28 Dominicains de Louvain. Le 17 tions entre hérésie et orthodoxie Venice 1998Summer Course of Armenian Languageand culture 31 janvier t960, il fut ordonné au début de l'ère chrétienne VIth International Conference on Armenian Linguistics Paris 79gg92 prêtre. Il fréquenta ensuite les (1987). Dans le deuxième volet xIIIth International Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford L999 33 cours pour le doctorat en théolo- de son enseignement il voulut la Armenian van-vaspurakan Hist. Armenian cities & Provinces I g4 gie à l'Université de Fribourg création d'une collection spéci- Taron-Mush and Baghesh-Bitlis Hist. Armenian Cities & prov II 35 /Suisse (1961,-1,963,doctorat en fique consacré à l'apprentissage Kharpert-Tsopk Historical Armenian Cities & Provinces III 36 1965) et ceux pour la licence en des langues chrétiennes orien- Armeno-Islamic Interchange in Anatolia 1250-1300. 37 langues orientales (arménien, tales et dans cette même série il Religion in the Republic of Armenia. Vth vardanants Day Lecture 3g copte et syriaque) à l'Université publia sa Short ClassicalArmenian The Meliks of Karabagh. VIth Vardanants Day Lecture 3g de Louvain (L963-I967, lic. en Grammar (Fribourg 19782). Outre DAG Conference on Ar:nenia 38 7e6e). à ses interventions lors de con- DAG Lecture on Greek Armenian Relations 38 De 1963 à 7967, il assura l'en- grès, il organisa lui-même à Fri- Conferencesin Byzantine Studies 1997 .39 seignement de la Patristique et bourg en 1988 un colloque de la Seminaires de la Sociétedes Etudes Arméniennes 39 de l'Histoire de la Philosophie Société Internationale d.esEtudes L'Actualité du Génocide des Arméniens. colloque, paris, Avril 9g 40 médiévale chez les Dominicains Arméniennes et participa de Discount for AIEA Members: Hovannisian, TheArmenian people 4g de Louvain, de t967 à 1,971,celui multiples façons aux commémo- Prinzing & Schmidt lHrsgl, Das LembergerEaangeliar 44 de l'Histoire de l'Eglise ancien- et de l'activité Nira Stone,TheKaffaLiaes of theDesertFathers 4S rations de la figure f,€, Repertory of ClassicalTexts in Armenian on Internet 46 à l'Université de Fribourg, du Prince Max de Saxe. Some Additions to Thomson's Bibliography 46 d'abord en tant que Chargé de Sesamis ont perçu dans sa 'curi- Publications Received 47 cours (1967-7969), ensuite en osité' scientifique le motif inspi- Publications by Members 50 qualité de Professeur assistant rateur et itinérant de son travail Adresses Lost 55 (7969-1971).En 1971, iI tut nom- scientifique, quand, en janvier In the Next Issue 55 mé Professeur extraordinaire de 1994, pour son 60ème anniver- workshops and Conferencesorganized under Auspicesof AIEA 56 Patristique, Histoire de l'Eglise saire, ils lui ont dédicacé des ancienne et Langues orientales Mélanges (Peregrina curiositas), et, en \976, Professeur ordinaire. s'inscrivant dans une véritable 1 L fête de la communauté universi- tres traitant d'un thème qui lui hard-disk will turn up further His reprinting of the first Arme- taire. Ces mêmes amis patristi- était cher: celui des rapports treasures. nian printed books was an ac- ciens et médiévistes organiseront entre hérésie et orthodoxie dans One need not go through the va- complishment close to his heart. un Mémorial Van Damme en jan- l'Eglise ancienne. rious books, encyclopedia arti- The book, especially an incu- vier 1999, à l'occasion de celui cles, and other writings that are nable, was an object of his love. qui aurait dû être son soixant- Flavio G. Nuvolone, amply described in his autobio- Although manuscripts had a cinquième anniversaire. Son Université Miséricorde, graphy. It is more important to high value in his esteem, his love souffle, qui lui a été soustrait si BP 23, CH - 1700 Fribourg stress the iron will of this most and care was for the often dis- tôt, animera toujours des rencon- generous of men: a will that saw paraged or forgotten printed enormous projects through to depositories of Armenian memo- Babgën ë'ugaszean completion: the reprinting of ries and wisdom. He made ex- Adjarian's Root Dictionarp the amples of the printed wealth of The death of Babken Choo gasz- strongest magnifying glass. In various catalogues of the hold- the L6th, LTth and LSth centuries ean on November 2, 1997 was a those difficult years, working by ings of the Matenadaran, and the available to all. Another source blow to the Matenadaran and to battery power more often than planning for the computeriza- of his most entertaining anec- Armenology. He was respected noÇ he completed trarobooks and tion of the Matenadaran's com- dotes was his shepherding of and loved by those who take saw another printed: in 1994, }rris plete catalogue (incomplete precious manuscripts from pri- pride in the title Armenologist. work on Georg Dpir Palatetsi today but proceeding). vate diasporan collectors to a He especially honored me by and in 7997 (just days before his His memory lives within the home in the Matenadaran; he allowing my wife and child to last hospitalization) his biogra- living he touched and it is neces- was very serious to ensure that become part of his family. We phical dictionary Iranian- of sary to share some of those me- these treasures would be avail- met six years ago while he was Armenians, who had returned to mories. His character still serves able then for the widest audience still an acti'.re administrator at their Fatherland. In this last book as a template for what many rather than merely protected the Matenadaran and then we he writes his own short autobio- would like to make theirs. from damage and neglect. He were sadly present as he went graphy with tact, restraint and Testing the popular ideas of our also made clear that he held col- through the operations and hos- accuracy; one can do nothing but day by the minutest facts was his lectors in the highest respect and pitalization that made his last to suggest that the interested talent; lucidity his state of grace. understood himself the desire to five years a particular challenge peruse its translation below and His lucidity found means to ex- have a little of that Armenian to his patience and enduranèe there learn the qualities of a man press itself even as his eyesight treasurehouse of the word in a (his advancing diabetes required who never thumped his own and mobility were taken from cultural landscape so vastly dif- the amputation of his foot and drum louder than he thumped him by his worsening diabetes. ferent. He was the finest negotia- was sorely affecting his eye- those of others. \Âtrhilehis books were always his tor because of this deep respect sight). His sons have related to me that first care, others perhaps equally for every human and for all Nonetheless, he was glad to be on his computer resides a com- cherished his administrative human foibles. rny kaoor when I married four pletely revised history of lranian flexibility. While seeing the Ma- His story about his negotiation years ago and whenever my literature (a work of a deceased tenadaran into the computer age, with an illiterate peasant for an family visited, he was a fount of friend that Babken agreed to see he was capable of envisioning a L8th century manuscript gospel, advice, a cofiunentator on recent through the press) and his own virtual museum or librarv. His whose scribe was the notorious events (he regularly listened to collection of his etymological last thoughts were about the Sayat Nova himself (known the Short Wave) and a man al- articles, which he was anxious to need to forge greater intercon- more as a lover than a priest) ways in search of the technologi- make into a dictionary.