Background
He was born in Yerevan and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad.
historian university professor writer
He was born in Yerevan and studied history at the university of Yerevan and Oriental Academy of Leningrad.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1963, and worked in the Academy of Sciences from 1963 to 1993.
He wrote his thesis regarding the Kurdish rebellions in the 19th century. After the collapse of Soviet Union, he moved to Austria, and taught at the University of Vienna, where he taught Kurmanji. He is now working at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna.