thumb|Image of Edvard Jrbashyan '''Edward Jrbashyan''' ({{langx|hy|Էդվարդ Ջրբաշյան}}; 1923–1999)<ref>{{cite news|title=Ակադեմիկոս Էդվարդ Ջրբաշյանի ծննդյան 80-ամյակին նվիրված հանդիսություն Ազգային գրադարանում|url=https://armenpress.am/arm/news/385037|accessdate=23 November 2013|newspaper=Armenpress|date=1 October 2003|language=hy}}</ref> was an Armenian literary critic, recognized as one of the most important literary critics in Soviet Armenia.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yeghiazarian|first=А. К.|title=Էդվարդ Ջրբաշյան [Edward Jrbashyan]|url=http://hpj.asj-oa.am/4768/|journal=Patma-Banasirakan Handes|year=1999|issue=1|pages=386–389|publisher=Armenian National Academy of Sciences|location=Yerevan|language=hy|issn=0135-0536}}</ref> A professor at the Yerevan State University, Jrbashyan directed the Abeghian Literature Institute of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kinnell|first=Susan K.|title=People in World History, Volume 1|year=1989|publisher=ABC-CLIO|location=Santa Barbara, California|isbn=9780874365504|page=306}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Noted Academician Edward Jrbashyan Dies|url=http://asbarez.com/40890/noted-academician-edward-jrbashian-dies/|accessdate=23 November 2013|newspaper=Asbarez|date=11 August 1999}}</ref>
He was noted for his numerous works on Armenia's national poet Hovhannes Tumanyan.<ref>{{cite news|title="His Greatest "Love" was Tumanyan..."|url=http://www.ysu.am/main/en/1384416348|accessdate=23 November 2013|date=14 November 2013|agency=Yerevan State University}}</ref>
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