Anahide Ter Minassian

Anahide Ter Minassian born Anahide Kévonian (26 August 1929 – 11 February 2019) was a French historian of Armenian origin who specialised in modern Armenian history, particularly the pre- and post-Soviet period of Armenian history, and the Armenian revolutionary movement.

She went to the Sorbonne where she studied History and Geography and she became a lecturer at the and at Paris I University.

After 40 years of service, she was made a knight of the légion d'honneur in 2015.

Ter Minassian died in Fresnes in 2019. In 2020 a book of Vahé Oshagan's poetry, "Onction", was published in French. His poetry had been translated from Armenian by Ter Minassian.

Anahide Ter Minassian's younger brother, Kéram Kévonian (born 1942), is also a specialist in Armenian history.

Works La Question Arménienne (Marseille, 1983) Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Revolutionary Movement (1887-1912) (Cambridge, Mass., 1984) 1918-1920-La République d’Arménie (Bruxelles, 1989, 2006) Histoires croisées: diaspora, Arménie, Transcaucasie (Marseille, 1997) Smyrne, la ville oubliée?: mémoires d’un grand port ottoman, 1830-1930 (editions Autrement, 2006) Nos terres d’enfance, l’Arménie des souvenirs, avec Houri Varjabédian (Marseille, 2010)