Mesrop Mashtots
Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)
b. c. 362 · d. 17 Feb 440
Mesrop Mashtots was an Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman, and hymnologist. He is venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church.
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Events
Commemorated
Places
- Hatsekats birth
- Tomb of Mesrop Mashtots burial
- Vagharshapat death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- History of the Armenians 1 claim — Mesrop makes an alphabet and Isaac translates the Bible
Written about
- The Life of Mesrop Mashtots 5th century