John A. C. Greppin

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'''John Aird Coutts Greppin''' (April 2, 1937 – May 3, 2016) was an American scholar of Armenian studies,<ref>[https://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/curric/necrolog.htm In Memoriam John A.C. Greppin],</ref> linguist, and a professor at the Cleveland State University.

==Biography== He attended the Allendale School in Rochester, New York, Dartmouth College, and University of Rochester. Greppin received a Ph.D. in Indo-European Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles in 1972. He taught Greek and Latin at the Woodstock Country School in South Woodstock, Vermont, Latin at Ruffing Montessori in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and was a professor at Cleveland State University from 1975 to 2010. Greppin was an author of 16 books and 500 articles and reviews.<ref>[https://sites.uclouvain.be/aiea/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Newsletter-Nr-51.pdf In Memoriam, John Greppin, by Virgil Strohmeyer, AIEA Newsletter, Sept. 2016]</ref> His academic specialty was Classical Armenian. He spent a year in Soviet Armenia on a State Department grant in 1974-75. In 1998 he spent a semester in Göttingen, Germany as a visiting professor. He founded the ''Annual of Armenian Linguistics'' and edited it for 25 years. He also co-edited ''Raft'', a Journal of Armenian Poetry and Criticism.<ref>[http://hpj.asj-oa.am/6263/1/294.pdf John Grepin (in Armenian)], Patma-Banasirakan Handes, #2, 2016, pp. 294-295.</ref>

In 2013 he donated his Armenian collection to the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) library.<ref>[http://tert.nla.am/archive/NLA%20TERT/Mirror-Spectator/120113.pdf NAASR’s Mardigian Library Receives Collection of Linguist Dr. John Greppin], The Armenian Mirror-Spectator, No 26, 2013, p. 1</ref>

With his wife Mary E. Greppin (Hannan) they had two children.<ref>[https://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=john-a-c-greppin&pid=179974898&fhid=2995 John A.C. Greppin, Obituary]</ref>

==Awards== * Distinguished Faculty Award for Research, Cleveland State University (2010)<ref>[https://www.csuohio.edu/president/convocation-address-0 Convocation Address, President Ronald M. Berkman, CSU, October 5, 2010]</ref>

==Works== * ''The Diffusion of Greco-Roman Medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus''. Emilie Savage-Smith (Editor), John L. Gueriguian (Editor), John AC Greppin (Editor). 1999. {{ISBN|9780882060965}} * ''Handbook of Armenian Dialectology'' (Anatolian and Caucasian studies). by John A. C. Greppin, Amalya Khachaturyan, New York : Caravan, 1986, 253 p. * ''"Bark Galianosi": The Greek-Armenian Dictionary to Galen.'' Author: John AC Greppin. December 1985. {{ISBN|9780882060644}} * ''Interrogativity: A Colloquium on the Grammar, Typology, and Pragmatics of Questions in Seven Diverse Languages, Cleveland, Ohio, October 5th, 1981-May 3rd, 1982''. Author: John AC Greppin, Louis Tonko Milic, William Chisholm. January 1984. {{ISBN|9027228647}}; * ''Studies in Classical Armenian Literature'' (Anatolian and Caucasian Studies), by John A. C. Greppin, 1994, 261 p. {{ISBN|0882060805}}

==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqnM7li3qzs John Greppin - The Urartian Influence on the Earliest Armenians]

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