Anahide Ter Minassian
Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian was a French historian of Armenian origin who specialised in modern Armenian history, particularly the pre- and post-Soviet period of Armenian history, and the Armenian [national liberation movement|Armenian revolutionary movement].
Life
Ter Minassian was born in Paris in 1929. Her stateless Armenian parents were Levon Kévonian and Armenouhie Der-Garabédian, who taught her Armenian and refused to send her to a French school until she was seven. She would in time marry the son of Armenian statesman Ruben Ter-Minasian, Leon Ter Minassian, who was also a stateless Armenian. They had four children, including historian Taline Ter Minassian.She went to the Sorbonne where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the and at University of [Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne|Paris I University]. In 1969 she went to work at the Sorbonne.
After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the légion d'honneur in 2015.
Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019. In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian.
Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian, is also a specialist in Armenian history.
Works
- La Question Arménienne
- Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement
- 1918-1920-La République d’Arménie
- Histoires croisées: diaspora, Arménie, Transcaucasie
- Smyrne, la ville oubliée?: mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930
- ''Nos terres d’enfance, l’Arménie des souvenirs, avec Houri Varjabédian''