Stepan Malkhasyants

Stepan Malkhasyants
Born	(1857-11-07)November 7, 1857 Akhaltsikhe, Russian Georgia
Died	July 21, 1947(1947-07-21) (aged 89) Yerevan, Armenian SSR
Alma mater	Saint Petersburg State University
Known for	Armenian Explanatory Dictionary
Awards	Stalin Prize (1946)
Scientific career
Fields	Philology, Armenian studies, Oriental Studies
Institutions	Armenian Academy of Sciences

Stepanos Sargsi Malkhasiants (Armenian: Ստեփան Սարգսի Մալխասյանց; November 7 [O.S. October 25] 1857 – July 21, 1947) was an Armenian academician, philologist, linguist, and lexicographer. An expert in classical Armenian literature, Malkhasiants wrote the critical editions and translated the works of many classical Armenian historians into modern Armenian and contributed seventy years of his life to the advancement of the study of the Armenian language.