Aucher, Giovanni Battista

AUCHER, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. - Mechitarist of Venice, b. in Ancyra in 1762, d. in Venice in 1854. Ordained a priest on 4 Jan. 1786, he was assistant general of the Congregation for 30 years, and, for twenty, vicar general, without ever neglecting, for fully 65 years, his intellectual activity.

He wrote: Ascetic and spiritual works, all published in Venice in Armenian: On our 4 ends, 1810. - Hagiographic works: Life and complete martyrology of all the saints of the calendar of the Armenian Church, 12 vols., according to the Armenian, Greek, Latin and Syriac menologia, with ample critical notes on each saint, 1810-15; Florilegium of the Saints, 1800. - Patrological works and textual publications: Chronology of Eusebius, preserved in the ancient Armenian translation, published by A. together with the Latin translation made by him: Eusebi... Chronicon bipartitum nunc primum ex armeniaco textu in latinum conversum etc., 1818; S. Ephrem Evangelii concordati expositio, 1827. - Linguistic works: a monumental work was the Armenian-Latin-Greek vocabulary, called Haigazian, of the whole of Armenian culture, 2 vols., 1836.