Շուէդ Ճանապարհորդ Ֆրեդրիք Հասելքուիսթը հայերի մասին
Loading...
Date
2006
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
There are interesting observations and information about the Armenians in the traveling notes of the Swedish botanist and physician Fredrick Hasselquist (1722-1752), Iter Palaestinum. He traveled in Ottoman Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt and described the peoples of these countries, including Armenians. He attended an Armenian church service in Smyrna and gave some information about the Armenians in Jerusalem and Jaffa.
Hasselquist appreciated the skills of the Armenians: “The Armenians are the architects of the Turks. By their natural inclination for the arts, assisted by what they have seen on their travels in the East, build as well as can be expected from a people who owe all their knowledge, in a manner, to nature. If these people were to travel to Europe, and there cultivate their parts, we might see in the East masters in every useful science, who might probably vie with the ancients and surpass many of the moderns.”
Description
Keywords
Citation
Բախչինեան, Ա., «Շուէդ Ճանապարհորդ Ֆրեդրիք Հասելքուիսթը հայերի մասին», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2006, Պէյրութ, էջ 251-262