The Kartvelian studies ( ka, ქართველოლოგია) also referred as Kartvelology or Georgian studies is a field of humanities covering Kartvelian (Georgian)

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, languages,

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and/or

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. In a narrower sense, the term usually refers to the research activities conducted on these problems outside Georgia.

Luminaries of Kartvelian studies

Georgian scholars

* Prince Teimuraz of Georgia (1782–1846) * David Chubinashvili (1814–1891) * Alexander Khakhanov (1864–1912) *

Ivane Javakhishvili Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; 23 April 1876 – 18 November 1940) was a Georgian historian and linguist whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history ...

(1876–1940) *

Korneli Kekelidze Korneli Kekelidze ( ka, კორნელი კეკელიძე) (April 30, 1879 – June 7, 1962) was a Soviet and Georgian philologist, scholar of Georgian literature, and one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University wher ...

(1879–1962) * Ilia Abuladze (1901–1968) *

Simon Kaukhchishvili Simon Kaukhchishvili ( ka, სიმონ ყაუხჩიშვილი) (October 1, 1895 in Kutaisi – May 11, 1981 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian historian and philologist known for his critical editions of old Georgian chronicles; Doctor of H ...

(1895–1981) *

Giorgi Melikishvili Giorgi Melikishvili ( ka, გიორგი მელიქიშვილი; russian: Гео́ргий Алекса́ндрович Меликишви́ли; December 30, 1918 – March 27, 2002) was a Georgian historian known for his fundamenta ...

(1918–2002) * Irine Melikishvili (1943–2013) *

Georges Charachidzé Georges Charachidzé (Giorgi Sharashidze; ka, გიორგი შარაშიძე) (February 11, 1930 – February 20, 2010) was a French- Georgian scholar of the Caucasian cultures. His most important works focused on the history of ...

(1930–2010) * Merab Chukhua (born 1964)

International scholars

Jacob Georg Christian Adler Jakob Georg Christian Adler (8 December 1756, in Arnis near Kappeln, Schleswig – 22 August 1834, in Giekau near Lütjenburg) was a Danish-German Generalsuperintendent for Holstein and Schleswig, Orientalist, Syriac language professor at the Un ...

(1756-1834) *

Marie-Félicité Brosset Marie-Félicité Brosset (24 January 1802 – 3 September 1880) was a French orientalist who specialized in Georgian and Armenian studies. He worked mostly in Russia. Early life and first works Marie-Félicité Brosset was born in Paris in ...

(1802–1880) *

Arthur Leist Arthur Leist (8 July 1852 – 22 March 1927) was a German writer, journalist and translator of Georgian and Armenian literature. He was born and educated at Breslau. During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), he got interested in the Caucasus ...

(1852–1927) * John Oliver Wardrop (1864–1948) *

Marjory Wardrop Marjory Scott Wardrop (11 November 1869 – 7 December 1909) was an English scholar and translator of Georgian literature. She was a sister of the British diplomat and scholar of Georgia, Sir Oliver Wardrop. Fluent in seven foreign languages, ...

(1869–1909) *

Robert Pierpont Blake 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 chi ...

(1886–1950) *

Gerhard Deeters Gerhard is a name of Germanic origin and may refer to: Given name * Gerhard (bishop of Passau) (fl. 932–946), German prelate * Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1292–1340), German prince, regent of Denmark * Gerhard Barkhorn (1919–19 ...

(1892–1961) * Georges Dumézil (1898–1986) *

William Edward David Allen William Edward David Allen (6 January 1901 – 18 September 1973) was a British scholar, Foreign Service officer, politician and businessman, best known as a historian of the South Caucasus—notably Georgia. He was closely involved in the polit ...

(1901–1973) * Hans Vogt (1909–1986) *

Gertrud Pätsch Gertrud Pätsch (born 22 January 1910 in Hannover as ''Gertrud Kettler''; died 14 December 1994 in Jena) was a German ethnologist and philologist, who rendered service in the area of Kartvelian studies. In 1937 she graduated in Munster with a d ...

(1910-1994) *

Cyril Toumanoff Cyril Leo Toumanoff (russian: Кирилл Львович Туманов; 13 October 1913 – 4 February 1997) was a Russian-born Georgian historian and genealogist who mostly specialized in the history and genealogies of medieval Georgia, Armenia, ...

(1913–1997) *

Gérard Garitte Gérard Garitte (1914–1990) was a Belgian historian and an academic at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the French-speaking University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He raised the study of Georgian ecclesiastical li ...

(1914–1992) *

David Marshall Lang David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 20 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and ...

(1924–1991) *

Georgi Klimov Georgy Klimov (russian: Гео́ргий Андре́евич Кли́мов, ''Georgiy Andreyevich Klimov'') (September 23, 1928 – April 29, 1997) was a Russian linguist and a leading specialist of the Caucasian languages. His interest primarily ...

(1928–1997) *

Michel Van Esbroeck Michel may refer to: * Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name) * Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers) * Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...

(1934–2003) * Heinz Fähnrich (born 1941) *

Kevin Tuite Kevin Tuite ( Irish: ''Caoimhín de Tiúit''; born April 3, 1954) is a full Professor of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. He is a citizen of both Canada and Ireland.

(born 1954) *

Donald Rayfield Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Jos ...

* Brian George Hewitt (born 1949) * Stephen H. Rapp *

Stephen F. Jones Stephen F. Jones (born 1953) is an English expert on post- Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as Chair of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Jon ...

* Constantine B. Lerner * Mine Kadiroğlu * Luigi Magarotto * Bernard Outtier * Farshid Delshad (born 1972) *

Jost Gippert Jost Gippert (; born 12 March 1956 in Winz-Niederwenigern, later merged to Hattingen) is a German linguist, Caucasiologist, author, and professor for Comparative Linguistics at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics at the Goethe University of ...

* Roland Bielmeier * Michael Job * Katharine Vivian (1917–2010) * Hirotake Maeda * Hayate Sotome * Václav A. Černý

Periodicals

*'' Bedi Kartlisa. Revue de Kartvélologie'' *'' Georgica'' *'' Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes''

External links

Fund for Kartvelian Studies
*Khintibidze, Elguja (1996)

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