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Kirakos of Gandzak ((アルメニア語:Կիրակոս Գանձակեցի, ''Kirakos Gandzaketsi'')) (c. 1200/1202–1271) was an Armenian historian of the 13th century〔 Steven Runciman. A History of the Crusades. — Cambridge University Press, 1987. — Vol. I. — P. 335"''Later Armenian chroniclers, such as Samuel of Ani and Mekhitar of Airavanq, writing at the end of the twelfth century, and Kirakos of Gantzag and Vartan the Great, in the thirteenth century, treat only briefly of the First Crusade.''"〕〔 René Grousset. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. — Rutgers University Press, 1970. — P. 282"''Mongka gave a warm welcome to this faithful vassal and handed him a yarligh of diploma of investiture and protection, "a diploma", says the Armenian chronicle of Kirakos, "bearing his seal and explicitly forbidding any action against the person or states of Hethum. He also gave him a charter enfranchizing churches everywhere." Another Armenian historian, the monk "Hayton", in his Flor des extoires d'Orient, states in addition that Mongka gave his visitor an assurance that a great Mongol army under his brother, Hulagu khan, would attack Baghdad; destroy the caliphate, their "mortal enemy"; and restore the Holy Land to the Christians.''"〕〔S. Peter Cowe. Kirakos Ganjakec'i or Arewelc'i // Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History / Edited by David Thomas & Alex Mallet. — BRILL, 2012. —vol. IV. — p. 438:"''Kirakos is one of the most important Armenian historians of the 13th century. He was born in the region of Ganja and received his early formation at the monastic school of Nor Getik under the eminent savant Vanakan Vardapet.''"〕 and author of the ''History of Armenia'', a summary of events from the 4th to the 12th century and a detailed description of the events of his own days.〔Khanlaryan, L. ''«Կիրակոս Գանձակեցի»''. Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia. vol. v. Yerevan, Armenian SSR: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1979, p. 450.〕 The work concentrates primarily on the history of Medieval Armenia and events occurring in the Caucasus and Near East. The work serves as a primary source for the study of the Mongol invasions and even contains the first recorded word list of the Mongolian language.〔Zgusta, Ladislav, Franz J. Hausmann and Oskar Reichmann (eds.). ''An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography''. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1991, p. 2368. ISBN 3-11-012421-1.〕 The work has been translated into several languages including Latin, French and Russian. ==Life== Kirakos was born in the city of Gandzak (Ganja, presently in Azerbaijan) in or around 1200. He attended the school of New Getik in the village of Tandzut in the region of Kayen (classes were originally taught in a cave and it was only later that they later relocated to a one-room building).〔Hacikyan et al. ''Armenian Literature'', p. 493.〕 He was the pupil of Vanakan Vardapet, a scholar and native from his native Gandzak. In 1215, Kirakos along with his classmates and their teacher Vanakan moved to study at the monastery at Khoranashat in Tavush. With the Mongol invasion of the 1230s, Kirakos and his mentor were captured by Mongol forces in the spring of 1236.〔 As captives, however, he and Vanakan managed to serve as secretaries for the Mongols. During this time, Kirakos learned the Mongolian language and he later compiled his knowledge of it into a list of 55 words with their corresponding Armenian meanings. A ransom was paid to free Vanakan in the summer of that year but Kirakos also managed to escape the same night and returned to the town of Getik.〔Bedrosian, Robert. (Kirakos Ganjakets'i's History of the Armenians: Translator's Preface ). Robert Bedrosian’s Homepage. New York, 1986. Accessed March 7, 2008.〕 Following Vanakan's death in 1251, Kirakos assumed his former teacher's duties and became the head of the school in New Getik. In 1255, he was granted an audience with the leader of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Hetum I, in the town of Vardenis (in Aragatsotn), informing him of missionary work in the region.〔 He remained in New Getik for several more years; he died in 1271 and was buried there. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kirakos of Gandzak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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