Nicholas Adontz

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.

Nicholas Adontz
Born(1871-01-10)January 10, 1871
DiedJanuary 27, 1942(1942-01-27) (aged 71)
Brussels, Belgium
Alma materSaint 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
FieldsByzantine studies, Armenian studies
InstitutionsRussian Academy of Sciences
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