Charles Dowsett

Charles Dowsett
Born2 January 1924
United Kingdom
Died8 January 1998(1998-01-08) (aged 74)
NationalityBritish
Other namesCharles Downing
Occupation(s)Professor, writer

Charles James Frank Dowsett (2 January 1924 – 8 January 1998) was the first Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian at the University of Oxford from 1965 to 1991.[1] A teacher and raconteur, he had a large range of interests and culminated in his work on the poet Sayat Nova based on research on the Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium in 1996.

  1. ^ Pembroke College, Oxford University, Fellows joining in the 1960s Archived February 23, 2007, at the Wayback Machine