Mesrop Mashtots

Mesrop Mashtots
Name in Armenian	Մեսրոպ Մաշտոց
Birthplace	Hatsik
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Birth date	362
Lived in	Ejmiatsin
Death place	Ejmiatsin
Death date	440/02/17
Death year	440
Resting GPS	40° 15' 30.96" N, 44° 18' 56.88" E
Languages	Armenian
Ethnicities	Armenian
Ancestral villages	Hatsik

Mesrop Mashtots statue in Oshakan Village

Mesrop Mashtots (362 – February 17, 440 AD) was an early medieval Armenian linguist, composer, theologian, statesman and hymnologist. He is best known for inventing the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity. He is also considered to be the creator of the Caucasian Albanian and one of the Georgian alphabets by some scholars.

He is buried in Oshakan Church, a village of the same name 8 km southwest from Ashtarak Town.