Biography

	Acharyan Hrachya (Hakob)
Armenian:	Աճառյան Հրաչյա Հակոբի
Russian:	Ачарян Грачья Акопович ;
Born:	08.03.1876 ; Yerevan, Armenia
Died:	16.04.1953 ; Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
	Description:; Linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, philologist, polyglot, academic professor.

Was born on March 8, 1876 in Constantinople.

Education

In 1889 graduated from Sahakyan school with honors.
Attended the Getronagan School.
In 1893 graduated from the central Constantine college.
From 1895 studied at Paris-Sorbonne University (with Antoine Meillet).
Studied at the University of Strasbourg.
Studied foreign languages, comparative grammar, and the history of the Armenian language at Yerevan State University.

From 1898 to 1923 worked as a teacher at the Gevorgian Seminary in Etchmiadzin, Shusha and Tehran.
In 1923 he received an invitation from the authorities of Soviet Armenia (Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic) to move with his wife and reside in Yerevan to teach at YSU.

Was a member of the French Linguistic Association and the Czechoslovakian Institute of Oriental Studies.
Authored more than 200 scientific publications on Armenology, Armenian language, and Oriental Languages.
The Armenian State Institute of Linguistics is named after him.
There is a street named after him in the Avan district of Yerevan, Armenia.

His father was a shoemaker.
When he was less than a year old, he was involved in an accident which resulted in the complete loss of sight in his left eye.
In Shusha he met his future wife Arusyak.
He was fluent in Arabic, Persian, French, Modern Greek, Italian, Biblical Hebrew, Ottoman Turkish, German, English, his native Armenian, and was able to read Latin texts as well.
On 29 September 1937, he was arrested and accused of being an English resident in Soviet Azerbaijan and a spy operating at the university in a counter-revolutionary group of professors.
Until his death on 16 April 1953,[9] Adjarian taught at the university. On 16 April, as usual, Adjarian lectured, held a training session for the Persian language, went home, shaved, ate dinner and told his wife, "Sophiko, I'm happy. Thank God, my wife is healthy, my daughter is well, today I also was able to go to university, and classes were a success. The main thing is, I have completed my work, lived 77 years – two magic numbers in a row, I have seen all, seen the days we dreamt about. And now for me it's all over."

Acharyan Hrachya (Hakob)

Armenian:	Աճառյան Հրաչյա Հակոբի
Russian:	Ачарян Грачья Акопович
Born:	08.03.1876 Yerevan, Armenia
Died:	16.04.1953 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Description: Linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, philologist, polyglot, academic professor.