# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mesrop-mashtots
# Generated: 2026-09-01T12:44:27.840Z

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name: "Mesrop Mashtots"
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description: "He invented the Armenian alphabet around 405 AD — an act that didn't just encode a language but anchored a nation's identity in written form."
tagline: "Armenian theologian and linguist (362–440)"
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deathDate: "0440-02-17"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mesrop Mashtots was born in 362, a linguist and theologian in an Armenia that had no script of its own. Around 405 AD he solved that: he created the Armenian alphabet, giving the language a written architecture and the culture a tool for preservation. The work didn't stop there — he's credited with devising the Caucasian Albanian script and possibly the Georgian one, though scholars still argue over the latter. He composed hymns, served as a statesman, and spent his final decades cementing literacy across Armenia. He died on 17 February 440, venerated as a saint, having left a people with the means to write their own story.