John A. C. Greppin Explained
| John A. C. Greppin |
| Birth Date: | 2 April 1937 |
| Birth Place: | Rochester, New York |
| Death Place: | Cleveland, Ohio |
| Citizenship: | US |
| Fields: | Armenian studies |
| Awards: | Distinguished Faculty Award for Research by Cleveland State University |
| Spouse: | Mary E. Greppin (Hannan) |
John Aird Coutts Greppin (April 2, 1937 – May 3, 2016) was an American scholar of Armenian studies,[1] linguist, and a professor at the Cleveland State University.
Biography
He attended the Allendale School in Rochester, New York, Dartmouth College, and University of Rochester. Greppin received a Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles in 1972. He taught Greek and Latin at the Woodstock Country School in South Woodstock, Vermont, and was a professor at Cleveland State University from 1975 to 2010. Greppin was an author of 16 books and 500 articles and reviews.[2] His academic specialty was Classical Armenian. He spent a year in Soviet Armenia on a State Department grant in 1974-75. In 1998 he spent a semester in Göttingen, Germany as a visiting professor. He founded the Annual of Armenian Linguistics and edited it for 25 years. He also co-edited Raft, a Journal of Armenian Poetry and Criticism.[3]
In 2013 he donated his Armenian collection to the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) library.[4]
With his wife Mary E. Greppin (Hannan) they had two children.[5]
Awards
- Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Cleveland State University (2010)[6]
Works
- The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Emilie Savage-Smith (Editor), John L. Gueriguian (Editor), John AC Greppin (Editor). 1999.
- Handbook of Armenian Dialectology (Anatolian and Caucasian studies). by John A. C. Greppin, Amalya Khachaturyan, New York : Caravan, 1986, 253 p.
- "Bark Galianosi": The Greek-Armenian Dictionary to Galen. Author: John AC Greppin. December 1985.
- Interrogativity: A Colloquium on the Grammar, Typology, and Pragmatics of Questions in Seven Diverse Languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th, 1981-May 3rd, 1982. Author: John AC Greppin, Louis Tonko Milic, William Chisholm. January 1984. ;
- Studies in Classical Armenian Literature (Anatolian and Caucasian Studies), by John A. C. Greppin, 1994, 261 p.
External links
Notes and References
- http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/necrolog.htm In Memoriam John A.C. Greppin
- https://sites.uclouvain.be/aiea/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Newsletter-Nr-51.pdf In Memoriam, John Greppin, by Virgil Strohmeyer, AIEA Newsletter, Sept. 2016
- http://hpj.asj-oa.am/6263/1/294.pdf John Grepin (in Armenian)
- http://tert.nla.am/archive/NLA%20TERT/Mirror-Spectator/120113.pdf NAASR’s Mardigian Library Receives Collection of Linguist Dr. John Greppin
- https://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=john-a-c-greppin&pid=179974898&fhid=2995 John A.C. Greppin, Obituary
- https://www.csuohio.edu/president/convocation-address-0 Convocation Address, President Ronald M. Berkman, CSU, October 5, 2010
