Alexander Janelidze ( ka, ალექსანდრე ჯანელიძე; November 5, 1888 – January 16, 1975) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

geologist and statesman. Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1941). Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1923), professor (1925), Honored Scientist of the Georgian SSR (1946). A member of the

Communist Party of the Soviet Union "Hymn of the Bolshevik Party" , headquarters = 4 Staraya Square, Moscow , general_secretary = Vladimir Lenin (first) Mikhail Gorbachev (last) , founded = , banned = , founder = Vladimir Lenin , newspaper ...

from 1942.Babunashvili Z., Nozadze T., 1994. Patriots’ afterlife, Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi, p. 425 (In Georgian). Alexander Janelidze was born on 5 November 1888 in the village of

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Ambrolauri district The Ambrolauri Municipality ( ka, ამბროლაურის მუნიციპალიტეტი, ''Ambrolauris Munits'ipaliteti'') is a self-governing subdivision in western Georgia. Its governing bodies are based in the city of Am ...

, Georgia. In 1910 he finished the University of Paris, and in 1916 Kazan University. He served Rector of the Tbilisi State University (1942–1945). Alexander Janelidze founded the faculty of Geology and Paleontology at the Georgian Technical University and acted as the head of the faculty for many years. For 30 years, Alexander Janelidze ran the Institute of Geology which was founded by him in 1925 at Tbilisi State University. He also established Georgian Geological Society, which he devotedly chaired until his death. Museum of Paleontology was established under the Alexander Janelidze in 1924. His scientific works concerned Paleontology,

Stratigraphy Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock (geology), rock layers (Stratum, strata) and layering (stratification). It is primarily used in the study of sedimentary rock, sedimentary and layered volcanic rocks. Stratigrap ...

, Tectonics, Engineering geology, Hydrogeology,

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, Theoretical geology et al. Alexander Janelidze is the author of more than 150 essays, among them monographs and textbooks.Mgeladze, G. (1976). Alexander Janelidze. Bibliography. Tbilisi, Metsniereba, pp. 5–24. Alexander Janelidze died in Tbilisi in 1975 and was buried there, at the

Didube Pantheon The Didube Pantheon ( ka, დიდუბის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი) is a cemetery in Tbilisi, Georgia, where some of the most prominent writers, artists, s ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Janelidze, Alexander 1888 births 1975 deaths University of Paris alumni Members of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Rectors of Tbilisi State University Geologists from Georgia (country) Soviet geologists Kazan Federal University alumni Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Honoured Scientists of the Georgia (country) Burials at Didube Pantheon