Ivane Javakhishvili

Ivane Javakhishvili (Georgian ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; born April 11, 1876 in Tbilisi, Georgia, † November 18, 1940 ) was a Georgian scientists. He was Professor of History and co-founder of the Tbilisi State University.

Life

He was born the son of the educationalist Aleksandre Javakhishvili, put 1895 on 1 classical Gymnasium in Tbilisi the Abitur. In 1899 he completed his studies at the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Saint Petersburg. There followed a two-year master's graduate studies. In 1898, he learned German in Königsberg.

From 1901 to 1902 he was a visiting scientist at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin, studied with Adolf von Harnack and Karl Krumbacher, translated historiographical sources from Georgian into German. Harnack tried in vain to win him to the University of Berlin.

In 1902 he went with Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr on a scientific expedition to Mount Sinai, secured there old Georgian manuscripts. 1903-1917 Javakhishvili was a lecturer at the Armenian - Georgian -Iranian department in the Faculty of Oriental Languages ​​at the University of Saint Petersburg with the working area Kartwelologie. During the semester break, he gave public lectures on altgeorgische history, philosophy and art in Tbilisi.

Javakhishvili was the driving force behind the foundation of the Tbilisi State University. He drew up a foundation plan, recruited patrons. On 30 January 1918 he held the first lecture of the newly founded university ( " The personality of the people and their importance in altgeorgisch - philosophical writings "). 1919 to 1926 he was Rector of the University and from 1918 to 1938 Dean of the History Department. 1936 to 1940 he headed the history department of the State Museum of Georgia. 1939 Javakhishvili became a full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

With the Communist Party Javakhishvili lived for decades in feud. In 1924 he supported the August Uprising in Georgia. In 1926, he was therefore replaced as university rector and asked for several years under house arrest. 1936 refused to become a member of the CPSU. There were organized student protests that demanded his removal from the University service. Only later was reconciled with the party Javakhishvili and he was elected to the Parliament of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Javakhishvili authored 170 scientific research papers and 20 monographs, including a four-volume history of Georgia, a three-volume history of the Georgian law, a two-volume history of the economy of Georgia, a history of Georgian music, a study on the relationship of the Kartvelian and kauskasischen languages ​​, a Georgian paleography, a Georgian coin and metrology, a Georgian diplomacy and a work on sources and methods of historical research.

Javakhishvili died of a heart attack during a lecture at the University of Tbilisi.

Awards

After his death Javakhishvili was buried in the garden of Tbilisi State University. The State University of Tbilisi 1989 he received his name. The highest award of the University ie Ivane - Jawachischwili Medal, the highest award of the Georgian Academy of Sciences Ivane - Javakhishvili price. His portrait is depicted on the front of the Georgian Lari five - bill.

Works

• Kartuli enisa because mcerlobis istiriis sakithhebi. Tbilisi 1956
• Kartveli eris istoria. Sakhelmtsipo Universiteti, Tbilisi 1960
• Masalebi Sakartvelos sinamrecvelobisa because cvrili xelosnobis istoriidan. 5 vols, Mecniereba, Tbilisi 1987