Gevorg Jahukyan

[1] He was born on April 1, 1920, in the village of Shahnazar (now Metsavan), now located in the Lori Province of Armenia.

[2] In 1941 he graduated from the Yerevan State University (YSU) Faculty of Philology.

From 1962 to the end of his life he was the Director of the Acharian Institute of Language and Chairman of the Professional Council of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR.

His two-volume History of Linguistics (Yerevan, 1960-1962, 2015) and General and Armenian Linguistics (Yerevan, 1978) led to the idea of creating a common language model, which was laid out in the monograph General Theory of Language (Russian, Moscow, 1999, English, 2003).

His bronze bust is placed in the lobby of main building of YSU, and one of the classrooms of the Faculty of Armenian Philology is named after him.