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Dutch Armenologist, Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theo Maarten van Lint (born 15 June 1957 in Delft) is a Dutch scholar of Armenian studies. He has been the Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Oxford[1] and a professorial fellow of Pembroke College since 2002.[2] In the past, he has also served as secretary of the International Association for Armenian Studies.[3]
Van Lint completed MA degrees in Slavic languages and literatures as well as Indo-European comparative linguistics at the University of Leiden in 1988.[4] Under the supervision of Jos Weitenberg , he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Leiden in 1996 with a thesis on Kostandin of Erznka, an Armenian religious poet of the XIIIth-XIVth century. Armenian text with translation and commentary.[5]
From 1996 to 1999, van Lint was a Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences.[6][4]
Between 1999 and 2001, he was a researcher at the University of Münster before being called to the chair of Armenian Studies at Oxford, succeeding Robert W. Thomson as Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies.
Van Lint's current research interests include the letters of Grigor Magistros Pahlavuni, the reception of the throne vision of the prophet Ezekiel in Armenian culture, the Book of Lamentations of Gregory of Narek, and many other aspects of medieval Armenian culture.[1]
In 2015, together with Robin Meyer he co-curated the exhibition Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide as well as the 50th anniversary of the Calouste Gulbenkian Chair of Armenian Studies at Oxford University.[7]
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