Nicholas Adontz
Nicholas Adontz | |
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| Նիկողայոս Ադոնց | |
| Born | January 10, 1871 |
| Died | January 27, 1942 (aged 71) Brussels, Belgium |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Known for | -Histoire d'Arménie (1946) -Armenia in the Period of Justinian: the Political Conditions based on the Naxarar System (1908) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Byzantine studies, Armenian studies |
| Institutions | Russian Academy of Sciences |
Nicholas Adontz (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Ադոնց, romanized: Nikoghayos Adonts; Russian: Николай Адонц; January 10, 1871 – January 27, 1942) was an Armenian historian, specialising in Byzantine and Armenian studies, and a philologist. Adontz was the author of Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia.