Ashkharbek Kalantar | |
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Աշխարհբեկ Լոռիս-Մելիք Քալանթար | |
 Kalantar in 1926 | |
| Born | February 11, 1884 |
| Disappeared | March 19, 1938 (aged 54) Yerevan |
| Died | 1942 (aged 57–58) |
| Nationality | Armenian |
| Education | St. Petersburg University (1911) |
| Occupation(s) | archaeologist, historian |
| Known for | Founding Yerevan State University victim of Great Purge |
Ashkharbek Kalantar (Armenian: Աշխարհբեկ Լոռիս-Մելիք Քալանթար; February 11, 1884 – June 1942) was an Armenian archaeologist and historian who played an important role in the founding of archaeology in Armenia.
Born into the Armenian noble families of Loris-Melikov and Arghutians, he graduated St. Petersburg University in 1911 under Nicholas Marr. He was appointed a Fellow of the Archaeological Institute, of Imperial Russian Archaeological Society and the keeper of the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg. He was one of the founders of Yerevan State University. Ashkharbek Kalantar authored more than 80 scholarly articles.