Charles Dowsett | |
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| Born | 2 January 1924 United Kingdom |
| Died | 8 January 1998 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | British |
| Other names | Charles 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.