Gohar Muradyan (October 28, 1957, Yerevan) is an Armenian philologist and translator. She is a senior researcher and head of the Department for the Study of Translated Literature at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts in Yerevan, Armenia.
Life
Muradyan was born on October 28, 1957, in Yerevan. From 1969 to 1974 she studied at the English School No. 172 in Yerevan, 1974-1979 she studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Leningrad State University, 1979-1982 she did her Postgraduate studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenian National Academy of Sciences (scientific advisor academician Gagik Sargsyan). Since 1982, Muradyan has been working at the Matenadaran, since 1998 as Senior Researcher, since 2014 she is the Head of the Department of Study and Translation of Old Texts.
She has published critical editions of texts, monographs and articles on old Armenian translations from Greek.
In 1986 she defended her PhD: "The Book of Chreia and its Sources." From November 2001 she is member of AIEA ("Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes"). In 2005 shed defended her doctoral dissertation: "The Hellenizing School and Classical Armenian."
She has taken part in many international conferences, joint research projects, cooperating with authoritative research institutions: in 1996-1997 with the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Frankfurt am Main), in 1998 with the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies, in 1999–2002, 2001–2004, 2005–2007 with the University of Geneva, in 2008–2009 with the Graz University, in 2007–2012 with the University of Nebraska. This cooperation resulted in monographs, articles and translations in Armenian, English, French and Russian.
Critical Editions of Texts
Գիրք պիտոյից (Book of Chreia), critical edition by G. Muradyan, Yerevan, Armenian Academy Publishing House, 1993. Physiologus, The Greek and Armenian Versions with a Study of Translation Technique, by G. Muradyan, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA։ Peeters (Hebrew University Armenian Studies 6), 2005. Գրիգոր Մագիստրոսի Թուղթք և չափաբերականք (Letters and Verses by Grigor Magistros), critical text and Introduction, Մատենագիրք հայոց (Medieval Armenian Literature), 11th c., vol. 16, Yerevan, Nairi, 2012, pp. 139–481. David the Invincible, Commentary on Porphyry's Isagoge, Old Armenian Text with the Greek Original, an English Translation, Introduction and Notes by Gohar Muradyan, Leiden-Boston։ Brill, 2014. Դաւիթ Անյաղթին վերագրուած եւ նրա անուանն առնչուող գրուածքներ (Writings Ascribed to David the Invincible and Related to Him), քննական բնագրեր եւ առաջաբան, Մատենագիրք հայոց (Medieval Armenian Literature), 12th c., Mkhitar Gosh, vol. 20, Yerevan: Nairi, 2014, Appendix, pp. 613–782. Old Armenian Versions of the Dialectics by John of Damascus. Critical Texts and Study (John of Damascus, Armenian Translations, volume I), Yerevan, 2019, 316 pp. Old Armenian Version of the Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith by John of Damascus. Critical Text and Study (John of Damascus, Armenian Translations, volume II), Yerevan, 2023, 360 pp.
Monographs
Catalogue of the Armenian manuscript fragments of the Mekhitarist library in Vienna (co-author Aram Topchyan, with an afterword by Erich Renhart), bilingual Armenian-English edition, Yerevan: Ankyunakar Publishing, 2012, 374 p. Grecisms in Ancient Armenian, Leuven-Paris-Dudley, MA։ Peeters (Hebrew University Armenian Studies 13), 2012, 280 p. Հունաբանությունները դասական հայերենում (Grecisms in Ancient Armenian), Yerevan: Nairi, 2010, 291 p. Հին հունական առասպելների արձագանքները հայ միջնադարյան մատենագրության մեջ (Echoes of Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature) Yerevan: Nairi, 2014, 299 p. Ancient Greek Myths in Medieval Armenian Literature, Brill, 2022