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Mar 25, 1864 Gyumri, Shirak Region, Armenia Died on 02 Feb 1931 (aged 66)
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About Yervand Lalayan
- Yervand Lalayan (Armenian: ?????? ???????, January 8 [O.S.
- December 27] 1864 – February 2, 1931) was an Armenian ethnographer, archaeologist, folklorist.
- He was also the founder and the first director of the History Museum of Armenia from 1919 to 1927. In 1885 he left Tiflis's Nersisian School and worked in Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki, and Alexandrapol as a teacher.
- In 1894 ending the faculty of social sciences in the University of Geneva.
- Receiving the level of Candidate of sociological sciences, he worked for the Mkhitarians of Venice.
- Returning to Armenia, in 1895-1897 he worked in the diocesan school of Shusha.
- When here, and consulting with the notable scholars (Manuk Abeghian, T.
- Toramian, Hrachia Acharian, Leo, Melikset bek, S.
- Lisitsyan, Kh.
- Samuelyan, S.
- Zelinski, etc., he founded the periodical Azgagrakan Handes (Armenian: ???????????? ??????, "Ethnographic Magazine") in 1896.
- On November 21, 1900 he founded the Armenian Ethnographic publishing house in Tiflis.
- And in 1906 the Armenian Ethnographic Society.
- The museum of the society was transferred from Tiflis to Yerevan in 1921.
