Toros Toramanian

Toros Toramanian (Armenian: Թորոս Թորամանյան; 1864 - March 1, 1934) was a prominent Armenian architect. He is considered "the father of Armenian architectural historiography."^[1]

Biography

Toramanian was born in 1864, in the town of Şebinkarahisar, Ottoman Empire. He studied architecture in Constantinople and later in Paris, and then he worked on the detailed study of the remains of medieval Armenian architectural monuments.

Toramanian's scientific work paved the way for the great scholar, Josef Strzygowski, who, after a long and detailed study of Christian architecture reached the conclusion that Armenian architecture had a significant role in the development of Byzantine and later of West European architecture.^[2] In 1920, during the Kemalist invasions of Armenia, Toramanian lost a great part of his scientific study.^[3] He died in 1934 in Yerevan and was buried on the bank of Hrazdan river.

Works

• Niuter Hay Jartarapetutian Patmutian (Material for the History of Armenian Architecture), Vol. 1 (Erevan: 1942) and Vol. 2 (Evevan: 1948)

References

1. ^ Armen, Garbis (1992), An Architecture of Survival, pp. 71, ISBN 0-9695988-0-8 
2. ^ The Great 4: Mesrob, Komidas, Antranik, Toramanian, by Dr. Hermine Varjabedian, Beirut, 1969, p. 43
3. ^ The Great 4: Mesrob, Komidas, Antranik, Toramanian, by Dr. Hermine Varjabedian, Beirut, 1969, p. 45

See also

• Armenian architecture