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Professor Robert Thomson FBA

Modern and Medieval Middle Eastern Language and Literature

Elected 1995

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year of birth
1934
Year of death
2018
Year elected
1995
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/staff/ec/rthomson.html

Past appointments

University of Oxford Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies

1992 - 2001

Harvard University Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies

1969 - 1992

Publications

Nonnus of Nisibis: Commentary on the Gospel of Saint John

Robert W. Thomson - Published in 2014 by SBL Press

Agathangelos: The Lives of Saint Gregory

Robert W. Thomson - Published in 2010 by Caravan

The Lawcode [Datastanagirk'] of Mxit'ar Goš

Robert W. Thomson - Published in 2000 by Rodopi

Rewriting Caucasian history: the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian chronicles

Robert W. Thomson - Published in 1996 by Clarendon Press

Athanasiana Syriaca

Robert W. Thomson - Published by Peeters Publishers

Four parts, published 1965-1977

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