Anahide Ter Minassian | |
Birth Name: | Anahide Kévonian |
Birth Date: | 26 August 1929 |
Birth Place: | Paris, France |
Death Place: | Fresnes, France |
Known For: | Modern Armenian history |
Occupation: | historian, writer |
Spouse: | Leon Ter Minassian |
Children: | 4 |
Nationality: | French |
Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian (26 August 1929 – 11 February 2019) 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 revolutionary movement.
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.[1]
She went to the Sorbonne where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the and at Paris I University.[1] In 1969 she went to work at the Sorbonne.[2]
After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the légion d'honneur in 2015.
Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019.[3] In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian.[4]
Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian (born 1942), is also a specialist in Armenian history.[5]