Parrot’s Journey to Mount Ararat: Some Observations

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_5463
dc.contributor.author	Geus Klaus
dc.title	Parrot’s Journey to Mount Ararat: Some Observations
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	In the year 1829 Friedrich Parrot (1792-1841), professor of physics at the University of Dorpat (modern Tartu), first climbed Mount Ararat. With him were the Armenian deacon Khachatur Abovian (the ‘father of modern Armenian literature’), two Russian soldiers and two local Armenian peasants. His account of the Journey to Ararat, published in German in the year 1834, is considered a classic of travel literature. The present papers analyses its debt both to the literary genre and to ancient sources, especially to the Geography of the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo (ca. 63 BCE-ca. 23 CE).
dc.relation.ispartof	Eurasian Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2021-07-12
dc.dateAccepted	2021-02-05
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-01-11
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-498-5/parrots-journey-to-mount-ararat-some-observations/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-497-4/006
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8879
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9433
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-498-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-497-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
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dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Abovian
dc.subject	Abovian
dc.subject	Ararat
dc.subject	Ararat
dc.subject	Parrot
dc.subject	Parrot
dc.subject	Strabo
dc.subject	Strabo
dc.subject	Travel literature
dc.subject	Travel literature

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Parrot’s Journey to Mount Ararat: Some Observations

Klaus Geus Freie Universität, Berlin, Deutschland

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In the year 1829 Friedrich Parrot (1792-1841), professor of physics at the University of Dorpat (modern Tartu), first climbed Mount Ararat. With him were the Armenian deacon Khachatur Abovian (the ‘father of modern Armenian literature’), two Russian soldiers and two local Armenian peasants. His account of the Journey to Ararat, published in German in the year 1834, is considered a classic of travel literature. The present papers analyses its debt both to the literary genre and to ancient sources, especially to the Geography of the ancient Greek historian and geographer Strabo (ca. 63 BCE-ca. 23 CE).

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July 12, 2021

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Feb. 5, 2021

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Jan. 11, 2021

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Keywords: Ararat • Abovian • Travel literature • Parrot • Strabo

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