About Nicholas Adontz
Nicholas Adontz (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Ադոնց, romanized: Nikoghayos Adonts; Russian: Николай Адонц; January 10, 1871 – January 27, 1942) was an Armenian historian, specialising in Byzantine and Armenian studies, and a philologist. Adontz was the author of Armenia in the Period of Justinian, a highly influential work and landmark study on the social and political structures of early Medieval Armenia. In 1920, Adontz fled the chaos that had engulfed Russia following the revolutions of 1917 and moved first to London and then Paris. In 1931, Adontz was invited to deliver lectures at the University of Brussels and was appointed to the position of chair of the newly created department for Armenian Studies. He published his first scholarly article in the journal Handes Amsorya in 1901. In a stark departure from his studies on ancient and medieval Armenian history, Adontz took a vested interest in the history of the Armenian Question in the immediate years following the end of the First World War and published a number of works.
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