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Robert Pierpont Blake (November 1 1886 – May 9 1950) was an American Byzantinist and scholar of the Armenian and Georgian cultures. Robert P. Blake was born in San Francisco on November 1 1886. As a John Harvard Traveling Fellow he chiefly studied and worked between 1911 and 1918 in Russia where he mastered Russian and began his study of Arabic Syriac Armenian and Georgian.