F. Minas Bzhshkeants Item Info
Biography
F. Minas Bzhshkeants was a Catholic Mekhitarist Armenian priest who made significant contributions as a scholar and an educator. He was born in Trabizon at the southeastern shores of the Black Sea in 1777. Ordained as a priest of the Mekhitarist order in 1804 in the island of San Lazzaro, Venice, Bzhshkeants was sent back to Trabizon and later to Constantinople. In 1825, he settled in Crimea, acting as spiritual leader of the peninsula’s Catholic Armenians for about two decades, while continuing to engage in educational and scholarly activities. F. Bzhshkeants passed away in Venice in 1851.
Travelogues
Among F. Bzhshkeants’ diverse publications are two travelogues - Պատմութիւն Պոնտոսի որ է Սեւ Ծով (History of Pontus that is of Black Sea) (1819) and Ճանապարհորդութիւն ՚ի Լեհաստան եւ յայլ կողմանս բնակեալս ՚ի Հայկազանց սերելոյ ՚ի նախնեաց Անի քաղաքին (Journey to Poland and Other Places Inhabited by Armenians of Ancient Ani) (1830), both published by the Mekhitarist order in the island of San Lazzaro, Venice. They recount his journeys across Armenian communities. In tracing their origins to Ani, these volumes constitute a striking instance of how in the 19th century the ruins of Ani began exerting a quintessentially lost-but-found mnemonic pull within Armenian culture and beyond.
- Description:
- F. Minas Bzhshkeants was a Catholic Mekhitarist Armenian priest who made significant contributions as a scholar and an educator. He was born in Trabizon at the southeastern shores of the Black Sea in 1777. Ordained as a priest of the Mekhitarist order in 1804 in the island of San Lazzaro, Venice, Bzhshkeants was sent back to Trabizon and later to Constantinople. In 1825, he settled in Crimea, acting as spiritual leader of the peninsula’s Catholic Armenians for about two decades, while continuing to engage in educational and scholarly activities. F. Bzhshkeants passed away in Venice in 1851.
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- Minas Bzhshkeants Mekhitarist order Travelogues San Lazzaro (Venice)
Citation:
"F. Minas Bzhshkeants", Ani, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), /items/ani_224.html