death_date death_place birth_place citizenship nationality birth_date alt article_title name occupation
14 march 2004 glendale , california kilis , ottoman empire american armenian january 1914 alishan bairamian , Ալիշան Պայրամեան , Ալիշան Բայրամյան alishan bairamian
 alishan bairamian intellectual , linguist , historian , author
alishan bairamian

alishan bairamian -lrb- western armenian : Ալիշան Պայրամեան , eastern armenian : Ալիշան Բայրամյան ; january 1914 - 15 march 2005 -rrb- was an armenian intellectual , linguist , historian , and author .
born in kilis , a part of historic armenian cilicia , in 1914 , he was a survivor of the armenian genocide .
a repatriate to the armenian soviet socialist republic in 1946 , he became a professor of french at yerevan state linguistic university and yerevan state university .
he was also a member of the national academy of sciences of armenia 's institute of oriental studies , where he conducted research for his seminal work on the sanjak of alexandretta .
he was a regular contributor to armenian newspapers including nor or , nor hayastan , massis , and asbarez .
he also translated articles from american magazines on contemporary political issues .
