!!!Armenier

Armenians in Vienna: After a part of the Armenian order of  
Mechitarists had settled in Trieste under the protection of Maria 
Theresa in 1773, a branch was also founded in Vienna in 1810, and thus 
an Armenian cultural centre was established. The monks especially 
cultivated the Armenian language, history and literature and published 
all of the old Armenian writers' works with commentaries under the 
title of "National Library". Aydinian of Vienna wrote the fundamental 
textbook of modern Armenian grammar in 1866; Tschamtschian (1738-1823) 
published a 3-volume history in Venice (which then belonged to 
Austria), and in Vienna Garagaschian (1818-1903) wrote a 4-volume 
history of Armenia. The Vienna branch has been publishing "Handes 
Amsorya", a publication on Armenian linguistics, since 1887. The 
library of the Mechitarist Congregation, founded in 1773, owns a 
special collection of Armenian and Oriental manuscripts (approx. 
153,000 vols., 2,000 manuscripts, numismatic collection).

!Further reading
K. K. Arat, Die Wiener Mechitharisten, 1990.


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