Mkhitar Gosh

Mkhitar Gosh (Armenian: Մխիթար Գոշ, romanized: Mkhit’ar Gosh 1130–1213) was an Armenian scholar,[2][3][4] writer, public figure, thinker, and priest.

When he reached his adolescence he decided to dedicate his life to the church.

Upon his return, he, along with the princes' Zakare and Ivane Zakarian financial help, built the church of Getik.

It was also used in Poland, by order of king Sigismund the Old, as the law under which the Armenians of Lviv and Kamianets-Podilskyi lived from 1519 until the region fell under Austrian rule in 1772.

The works of Mkhitar Gosh were later adapted into a law codex in Middle Armenian, which was prepared by Sempad the Constable, a 13th-century Cilician Armenian noble, military commander, and judge.

Statue of Mkhitar Gosh in Armenia, holding his famous book Datastanagirk ( Book of Law ), which is the first Armenian legal text [ 1 ] to cover secular and ecclesiastical matters, begun in 1184. Gosh's code formed the basis for all later Armenian law codes, both that of Smbat in Cilican Armenia and those adaptations used in the diaspora farther afield.