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Profile
| Academic position | Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader |
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| Research fields | Medieval History,Asian Studies |
| Keywords | Cross-border identities, South Caucasus, Medieval Christian art, Apocryphal literature, Religious syncretism |
| Honours and awards | 2026: ‘Chercheur en résidence’: École Française d’Athènes. 2024: ‘Visiting Professorship’: Università degli studi di Salerno, Scienze del patrimonio culturale. Elected for this post as an ‘outstanding scholar with an excellent track record and internationally renowned for their achievements’. 2020: Senior Fellowship: Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), Koç Üniversitesi, Istanbul. 2019: ‘Heterotopies of Religious Authority in Late Antique Christianity’ (DFG): Universität Regensburg; member of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Beyond Canon’. 2016: ‘Polyphony of Late Antique Christianity’ (Leibniz Gemeinschaft): Goethe Universität Frankfurt. 2015: Statement of recognition from Armenian Catholicos Patriarch of Cilicia Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni for the contribution to the knowledge of Gregory of Narek’s work. 2012: ‘Research Fellowship for Very Experienced Researchers’: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the Turkish Council for Scientific and Technological Research (TÜBİTAK). 2007: ‘Prix Charles et Marguerite Diehl’: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres for an outstanding monograph in Byzantine studies, for Arméniens et Byzantins à l’époque de Photius (based on my PhD thesis). |
Current contact address
| Country | Bulgaria |
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| City | Sofia |
| Institution | University of Sofia St Kliment Ohridski |
| Institute | Centre for Oriental Languages and Cultures, Department of Classical Eastern Studies |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Jürgen Tubach | Orientalistisches Institut, Seminar Christlicher Orient und Byzanz, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) |
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| Prof. Dr. Armenuhi Drost-Abgarjan | Orientalistisches Institut, Seminar Christlicher Orient und Byzanz, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale) |
| Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert | Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/06/2010 |
Programme(s)
| 2009 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Catholicos John of Ōdzun’s Polemic against Paulicians and the Armenian-Syrian Council of Manzikert, 726’. In: Filosofiya-Philosophy. Bulgarian Journal of Philosophical Education, 34, 2025, 19–31 |
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| 2025 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Urmensch (Adam und Eva)’. In: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum. Sachwörterbuch zur Auseinandersetzung des Christentums mit der Antiken Welt, eds Ch. Hornung et al. (Stuttgart: A. Hiersemann) vol. 33/3 (Lieferung 260), 2025, coll. 360–396. |
| 2023 | eds I. Dorfmann-Lazarev and Haroutioun Khatchadourian: Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus. Karabagh, Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan in Contemporary Geopolitical Conflict. Leiden: Brill, 2023 |
| 2023 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Between the Plains and the Mountains: the Albanian-Armenian Marches in the 12th Century and David of Gandzak (c. 1065–1140)’. Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook, eds J. Gippert and J. Dum-Tragut. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. 537–570 |
| 2023 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Stalin’s Legacy in the Post-Soviet Nations and the Genesis of Nationalist Extremism in Azerbaijan’. Monuments and Identities in the Caucasus: Karabagh, Nakhichevan and Azerbaijan in Contemporary Geopolitical Conflict, eds I. Dorfmann-Lazarev and H. Khatchadourian. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 240–307 |
| 2023 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Primordial Human Beings According to the Biblical Tradition’. In: Philologia / Филология (Sofia), 44, 2023, 11–39. |
| 2023 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Udis’ Petition to Tsar Peter’. Caucasian Albania. An International Handbook, eds J. Gippert and J. Dum-Tragut. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. pp. 231–233 (annotated translation) and 261–263 (commentary). |
| 2022 | ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Leuven: Peeters, 2022 |
| 2022 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Introduction'. In: Leuven: Peeters, Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus, ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev, (, 2022), pp. 1–11.. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. 1–11 |
| 2022 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Admonitory Exhortations of Dawit̔ of Ganjak (†1140): The Armenian-Kurdish Contacts in the Kur Valley and the Birth of the Armenian Legal Tradition’. Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus, ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev. Leuven: Peeters, 2022. 277–321 |
| 2021 | ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond. Leiden: Brill, 2021 |
| 2021 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Concerning Four Kings From the Land of “Deep Ravines, Dense Forests and Dark Thickets”’. The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium: Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation, eds Ph.M. Forness et al... Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. 249–288 |
| 2021 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Introduction’. Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond, ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 1–26 |
| 2021 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Historian’s Craft and Temporal Bridges in Apocrypha and in Early Christian Art: Para-Biblical Sources in the Light of the Work of Marc Bloch’, in: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond, ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev (Leiden: Brill, 2021), pp. 295–312.. ‘The Historian’s Craft and Temporal Bridges in Apocrypha and in Early Christian Art: Para-Biblical Sources in the Light of the Work of Marc Bloch’, in: Apocryphal and Esoteric Sources in the Development of Christianity and Judaism: The Eastern Mediterranean, the Near East, and Beyond, ed. I. Dorfmann-Lazarev.. Leiden: Brill, 2021. 295–312 |
| 2020 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Adam in the Church at Ałt̔amar (915–921) and in a Pseudepigraphal Homily on Genesis: the Creator’s Companion, a King and a Herald of the Things to Come’. Von der Historienbibel zur Weltchronik. Studien zur Paleja-Literatur, ed. Ch. Böttrich et al.. Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2020. 306–332 |
| 2020 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Eve, Melchizedek and the Magi in the Cave of the Nativity According to the Armenian Corpus of Homilies Attributed to Epiphanius of Salamis’. The Protevangelium of James, eds J. N. Bremmer et al.. Leuven: Peeters, 2020. 264–311 |
| 2018 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Messiah Hidden in the Depths of the Sea: Reminiscences of 4 Ezra in the Armenian Script of the Lord’s Infancy’. Figures of Ezra, eds J. N. Bremmer et al.. Leuven: Peeters, 2018. 79–96 |
| 2016 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Christ in Armenian Tradition: Doctrine, Apocrypha, Art (SixthTenth Centuries). Peeters Publishers, 2016 |
| 2016 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Kingship and Hospitality in the Iconography of the Palatine Church at A?t?amar. In: eds. C. Alzati et al., Costantinopoli. ???????? e ????????. Studi in memoria di Gilbert Dagron (monographic issue of the Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa LII, 2016/3). L.S. Olschki, 2016. 479-516 |
| 2016 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Kingship and Hospitality in the Iconography of the Palatine Church at Ałt̔amar’. In: Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa, 52, 2016, 479–516, 15 plates. |
| 2014 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Primæval Beings in the Armenian Lords Infancy and Cognate Sources (edited texts, critical study, illustration). In: Aram Mardirossian, Agnès Ouzounian, Constantin Zuckerman, Mélanges Jean-Pierre MAHÉ (Travaux et Mémoires; vol. 18). Association des Amis du Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2014. 285-334 |
| 2014 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘The Cave of the Nativity Revisited: Memory of the Primæval Beings in the Armenian Lord’s Infancy and Cognate Sources’. In: Travaux et Mémoires 18 (2014), 18, 2014, 285‒334 |
| 2013 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Travels and Studies of Stephen of Siwnik‛ (c.685735): Redefining Armenian Orthodoxy Under Islamic Rule. In: Andrew P. ROACH and James R. SIMPSON, Heresy and the Making of European Culture. Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Ashgate, 2013. 355-381 |
| 2013 | I. Dorfmann-Lazarev: ‘Rückkehr zur Geburtsgrotte. Eine Untersuchung des armenischen Berichts über die Kindheit des Herrn’. In: Theologie der Gegenwart, 56, 2013, 30‒43 |
| 2012 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Studies of Armenian Christian Tradition in the Twentieth Century. In: Annual of Medieval Studies at Central European University, 2012, 137-152 |
| 2010 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Chiese non-calcedonesi. In: Alberto Melloni, Dizionario del sapere storico-religioso del Novecento, vol. I. Il Mulino, 2010. 515-534 |
| 2010 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: La transmission de lapocryphe de lEnfance de Jésus en Arménie. In: J. Frey, J. Schröter, Jesus in apokryphen Evangelienüberlieferungen (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament). Mohr Siebeck, 2010. 557-582 |
| 2009 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Exploration of the Kazakh Steppes and Semireče in Russia from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century. In: G.L. Bonora, N. Pianciola, P. Sartori, Kazakhstan: Religions and Society in the History of Central Eurasia. U. Allemandi & co., 2009. 179-198 |
| 2009 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: LErmete armeno: un catechismo. Ermete il Tre-volte-grande ad Asclepio «Definizioni». In: Paolo Scarpi, La rivelazione segreta di Ermete Trismegisto. Mondadori (Foundation Lorenzo Valla; Scrittori Greci e Latini), 2009. 3-23, 393-406 |
| 2009 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Robert W. THOMSON, Nerses of Lambron. Commentary on the Revelation of Saint John. In: Le Muséon, 2009, 231-236 |
| 2009 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Silence, Intellect and Discourse in the Quest for the True Teaching: Reflections on Hermes Trismegistoss «Definitions». In: Adrian Pabst and Christoph Schneider, Encounter between Eastern Orthodoxy and Radical Orthodoxy: Transfiguring the World through the Word. Ashgate, 2009. 176-184 |
| 2008 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Nazionalismo e religione nella dinamica del Genocidio degli armeni (1915-1916). In: Francesco Berti, Fulvio Cortese, Il crimine dei crimini. Stermini di massa nel Novecento. Franco Angeli, 2008. 64-84 |
| 2008 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: The Churches of the Near East and Their Missions From the Persian to the Turkish Conquest, 604-1071. In: Julia M.H. Smith and Thomas F.X. Noble, Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 3 (Early Medieval Christianities). Cambridge University Press, 2008. 65-85 |
| 2006 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: The Apostolic Foundation Stone: the conception of Orthodoxy in the controversy between Photius of Constantinople and Isaac Surnamed Mŕut (882). In: Andrew Louth, Augustine Casiday, Byzantine Orthodoxies. Ashgate, 2006. 179-198 |
| 2006 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: «Manto terrestre dellimmagine solare»: Note sul linguaggio cristologico di Gregorio di Narek. In: Jean-Pierre Mahé, Boghos Levon Zekiyan, Saint Grégoire de Narek théologien et mystique. Pontificio Istituto Orientale (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, vol. 275), 2006. 113-138 |
| 2004 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: Arméniens et Byzantins à lépoque de Photius Deux débats théologiques après le Triomphe de lorthodoxie. Peeters, 2004 |
| 2004 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: La découverte de la kénose de Dieu par la «Pensée faible La religion dans luvre de G. Vattimo». In: Istina, 2004, 361-377 |
| 2003 | Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev: La Pâque dEgypte et la Pâque de Jérusalem: Lherméneutique de lExode dans les traditions chrétienne et rabbinique selon I.Y. Yuval. In: Istina, 2003, 359-373 |