Mose Janashvili ( ka, მოსე ჯანაშვილი) (19 March 1855 – 19 April 1934) 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 ...

historian, ethnographer, and linguist. He was born into a Georgian Ingilo community at

Qakh Qakh District ( az, Qax rayonu; ka, კახის რაიონი, K′akhis raioni; Tsakhur: Къахын район) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the north of the country and belongs to the Shaki-Zagatala E ...

(now

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

). Educated at

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), is the Capital city, capital and the List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia (country), Georgia, lying on the ...

and

Kutaisi Kutaisi (, ka, ქუთაისი ) is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third-most populous city in Georgia, traditionally, second in importance, after the capital city of Tbilisi. Situated west of Tbilis ...

, he worked as a teacher for several years, from 1875 to 1920, and later served as a professor at the

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი ''Ivane Javaxishvi ...

. He mostly engaged in study of medieval Georgian chronicles and hagiographic literature. As a linguist, Janashvili subscribed to the theory that linked Georgian with the

Indo-European languages The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

.Очерки истории Грузии: В 8-и т. / АН ГССР, Ин-т ист., археол. и этнографии - Тб.: Мецниереба: Тип. АН ГССР; Т.5 : Грузия в XIX веке / [Ред.: М. Гаприндашвили, О. Жорданиа] -, 1990
(''Studies in the history of Georgia'', vol. 5) He is buried at

Mtatsminda Pantheon The Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures ( ka, მთაწმინდის მწერალთა და საზოგადო მოღვაწეთა პანთეონი, ''mtats'mindis mts'eralta da sazogado mo ...

in Tbilisi.

References

1855 births 1934 deaths Burials at Mtatsminda Pantheon 20th-century historians from Georgia (country) Philologists from the Russian Empire Linguists from Georgia (country) Philologists from Georgia (country) Academic staff of Tbilisi State University People from Qakh Ingiloy people {{Georgia-historian-stub