# Garnik Asatrian
Garnik Asatrian (Ermenice: Գառնիկ Ասատրյան "Gaṙnik Asatryan" d. 7 Mart 1963), İran doğumlu Ermeni İranolog, etnolog, dilbilimci ve tarihçidir. 7 Mart 1953'te Tahran'da dünyaya gelip 1968'de Erivan'a göç etmiştir. Sovyetler Birliği döneminde, 1977-1986 yılları arasında Leningrad Sovyet Bilimler Akademisii Doğu (Oryantal) Bilimleri Enstitüsü'nde eski İran kültürü, İran dilleri (Avestaca, Soğdca, Orta Farsça/Pehlevice, Farsça, Kürtçe, Zazaca) ve İran etnolojisi alanında doktora yapmıştır ve ardından öğretim görevlisi olarak çalışmaya başlamıştır. 1984 yılında Leningrad Üniversitesi'nden doktora, 1990 yılında da Moskova Sovyet Bilimler Akademisi'nden mükemmel doktora derecesi almıştır.
Ermenice, Rusça, İngilizce, Almanca, Fransızca, Türkçe ve Kürtçe 11 kitap ve 125'ten fazla bilimsel makaleye imza atmıştır.


## Eserleri.
  - "Encyclopaedia Iranica": "Dimli (or Zaza)," by Garnik Asatrian.
  - "Prolegomena to the Study of the Kurds," by Garnik Asatrian, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 13 (2009), pp. 1–58.
  - "The Origins of the Kurds and the Early Kurdish-Armenian Contacts," by Garnik Asatrian, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 5 (2001), pp. 41–74.
  - "The Origins of the Kurds and Early Armenian-Kurdish Contacts," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 1 (1997), pp. 1–16.
  - "Malak-Tāwūs: The Peacock Angel of the Yezidis," by Garnik Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 7, no. 1/2 (2003), pp. 1–36.
  - "The Yezidi Pantheon," by Garnik Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 8, no. 2 (2004), pp. 231–279.
  - "The Holy Brotherhood: The Yezidi Religious Institution of the 'Brother and the Sister of the Next World'," by Garnik Asatrian, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 79–96.
  - "The Foremother of the Yezidis, from Religious Texts in Iranian Languages," Symposium held in Copenhagen May 2002, published 2007, pp. 323–328.
  - "Introduction to the History and Culture of the Talishi People", edited by Garnik Asatrian (Yerevan, 2011, in Russian).
  - "On the South Caspian Contact Zone: Some Talishi Folk Beliefs," by Garnik Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 18 (2014) pp. 135–146.
  - "Armenian "xoygołowt'iwn" (Tracing Back an Old Animal-Breeding Custom in Ancient Armenia)," from "Iran and the Caucasus", Vol. 2 (1998), pp. 63–65.
  - "'The Mothers of Night': An Armenian-East Iranian Parallel," by Garnik Asatrian and Tork Dalalian, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 171–172.
  - "Iranian Miscellanea," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 203–208.
  - "The Origin of the -ng Suffix in Kurmandji," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 213–214.
  - "A Manual of Iranian Folk Magic in the Archive of the Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies in Yerevan," by Garnik Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 3/4 (1999/2000), pp. 239–242.
  - "Āl Reconsidered," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 5 (2001), pp. 149–156.
  - "Blunt, Bald and Wise: Iranian kund," by Garnik Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova, from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 5 (2001), pp. 201–206.
  - "The Lord of Cattle in Gilan," from "Iran and the Caucasus", Vol. 6, No. 1/2 (2002), pp. 75–85.
  - "Kurdish Lō-lō," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 10 (2006).
  - "Iranian Notes III," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 13 (2009), pp. 319–330.
  - "Some Notes on the Ethnic Composition of the Islamic Republic of Iran," from "Farhang-e mardom" (Tehran, 2011, in Persian), pp. 10–26.
  - "Marginal Remarks on the History of Some Persian Words," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 16 (2012), pp. 105–116.
  - "The Festival of Throwing Stones," from Iran and the Caucasus 16 (2012) pp. 201–203.
  - "The Ethnic Composition of Iran: From the "Expanse of the Aryans" to the Myth of Azerbaijan", by Garnik S. Asatrian (Yerevan, 2012, in Russian).
  - "Armenian Demonology: A Critical Overview," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 17 (2013) pp. 9–25.
  - "'Nose' in Armenian," from "Iran and the Caucasus", vol. 18 (2014), pp. 147–152.
  - "Origine du système consonantique de la langue kurde," by Garnik Asatrian and Vladimir Livshits, from "Acta Kurdica", vol. 1 (1994), pp. 81–108.
  - "A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects", with notes on dialectology and local toponymy, and a grammatical essay by Garnik S. Asatrian (Tehran, 2011).
  - "Poetry of the Baxtiārīs: Love Poems, Wedding Songs, Lullabies, Laments", by Garnik Asatrian and F. Vahman (Copenhagen, 1995).