Anahide Ter Minassian

Ter Minassian was born in Paris in 1929. Her stateless Armenian parents were Levon Kévonian and Armenouhie Der-Garabédian, who taught her Armenian and refused to send her to a French school until she was seven. She would in time marry the son of Armenian statesman Ruben Ter-Minasian, Leon Ter Minassian,^[1] who was also a stateless Armenian. They had four children, including historian Taline Ter Minassian.^[2]

She went to the Sorbonne where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [fr] and at Paris I University.^[2] In 1969 she went to work at the Sorbonne.^[3]

After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the légion d'honneur in 2015.^[4]

Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019.^[1] In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian.^[5]

Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian (born 1942), is also a specialist in Armenian history.^[6]

• La Question Arménienne (Marseille, 1983)^[7]
• Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887-1912) (Cambridge, Mass., 1984)
• 1918-1920-La République d’Arménie (Bruxelles, 1989, 2006)
• Histoires croisées: diaspora, Arménie, Transcaucasie (Marseille, 1997)
• Smyrne, la ville oubliée?: mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930 (editions Autrement, 2006)
• Nos terres d’enfance, l’Arménie des souvenirs, avec Houri Varjabédian (Marseille, 2010)