Zurab Avalishvili

Zurab Avalishvili (Georgian ზურაბ ავალიშვილი; Russian Zurab Awalow; * 1876 in Tbilisi, † May 21 1944 in black box ) was a Georgian historian, lawyer and politician. From 1918 to 1921 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia.

Life

He was born the son of Prince Dawit Avalishvili. In 1900 he completed a degree in history at the University of St. Petersburg, made ​​1900-1903 postgraduate studies at the Law Faculty of the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1904 he was associate professor at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1907 he became a professor at the Technical University in the same city, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Administrative Law.

During the February Revolution of 1917 he became a member of the Russian Senate. After the independence of Georgia in 1918 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He was the deputy head of the Georgian delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, which negotiated the Treaty of Versailles. He was co-founder of Tbilisi State University and one of its first professors.

On February 25, 1921 Avalishvili and the Georgian government were expelled by the Red Army from Tbilisi. At first he lived in Kutaisi, then in Batumi. On March 17, 1921 he left Georgia and went into exile in Germany. There he worked as a professor at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. He was co-founder of the Georgian Association in Germany and wrote for journals Georgics (London) and Byzantion (Brussels).

Awalischwilis scientific work focused on the history of Georgia and the Caucasus, the Georgian literature, international law and international relations. He wrote a basic historical representation for annexation of Georgia by Russia in 1801, published a monograph issued to today is the role of the first republic of Georgia in international relations. In addition, he wrote about culture and was considered a connoisseur of the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli.

After his death he was initially buried in Germany. In 1994 his body was transferred to Georgia, where he was buried in the Pantheon in Tbilisi Didube.

Writings

  • Decentralizacja i samoupravlenie vo Francii: departamentskija sobranija ot reformy Bonaparta do našich dnej. Stasjulevič, S. -Petersburg 1905
  • Prisoedinenie Gruzii k Rossii. Montvid, S. -Petersburg 1906
  • The independence of Georgia in international politics from 1918 to 1921. Headley, London 1940
  • History of Georgia, Munich 1944
  • Modern era historian
  • Legal scholars ( 20th century)
  • Politicians (Georgia)
  • University teachers (State University of Tbilisi )
  • University teachers (State Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg)
  • University teachers ( Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich)
  • Person (Tbilisi )
  • Georgian
  • Born 1876
  • Died in 1944
  • Man
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