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Mesrop Mashtots
c. 362 – 440 · b. Hatsekats
monktheologian
Inventor of the Armenian alphabet (c. 405) and translator of the Bible into Armenian. Also credited with Georgian and Caucasian Albanian scripts.
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Sources for biography
- Koriun, Life of Mashtots primary
- Movses Khorenatsi, History of Armenia 3.47-54 primary
tradition connections(2)
- knew of Gregory the IlluminatorMesrop worked under the catholicate descended from Gregory's line; tradition links them.Koriun, Life of Mashtots 6-9
- cited John ChrysostomThe 5th-century Armenian translation school founded by Mesrop and Sahak rendered Chrysostom's homilies into Armenian; Koriun describes the translation programme.Koriun, Life of Mashtots 11-19 · Thomson, A Bibliography of Classical Armenian Literature to 1500 AD (Brepols 1995), s.v. John Chrysostom