Pavle Ingorokva ( ka, პავლე ინგოროყვა; January 1, 1893 in
Poti
Poti ( ka, ფოთი ; Mingrelian: ფუთი; Laz: ჶაში/Faşi or ფაში/Paşi) is a port city in Georgia, located on the eastern Black Sea coast in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti in the west of the country. Built near t ...
– November 20, 1983 in
Tbilisi
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) was a
Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
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historian
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,
philologist
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, and public benefactor.
He graduated from the
University of St. Petersburg
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(1916). In 1917 he was one of the founders of the
Union of Georgian Writers
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. In 1917-1919 he was a member of the "National Council of Georgia". On May 26, 1918 Ingorokva signed the "Act of Independence of Georgia". In 1921 he protested the occupation of Georgia by the Bolshevist Russia, in 1921-1923 Ingorokva was a member of the group "Shavchokhianebi" ("Blackchokhians"). In 1924-1925, he was the
editor-in-chief
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of the Georgian scientific and literary Journal
Kavkasioni ("The Caucasus"). The Journal was closed by the Bolshevik regime.
In 1925 Ingorokva founded the Publishing House "Kartuli Tsigni" ("The Georgian Book"). This Publishing House published works of
Ilia Chavchavadze
Prince Ilia Chavchavadze ( ka, ილია ჭავჭავაძე; 8 November 1837 – 12 September 1907) was a Georgian public figure, journalist, publisher, writer and poet who spearheaded the revival of Georgian nationalism during the ...
in the XI volumes (1926-1928) and works of other outstanding Georgian authors. In 1933 "Kartuli Tsigni" was closed.
In 1929-1940 Ingorokva was a Head of the Department of Manuscripts of the State Museum of Georgia (now the
Georgian National Museum
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The museum was established within the framework of structural, institutional, and ...
), in 1940-1950 a senior research fellow of the
Institute of History (
Tbilisi
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). In 1958 he was one of the founders of the Institute of Manuscripts (now the
Georgian National Center of Manuscripts
The Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts ( ka, საქართველოს ხელნაწერთა ეროვნული ცენტრი; formerly the ''Institute of Manuscripts''), located in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a repository ...
). He was also a member of the Commission on Study of ''
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
''The Knight in the Panther's Skin'' ( ka, ვეფხისტყაოსანი, tr literally "the one with the skin of a tiger") is a Georgian medieval epic poem, written in the 12th or 13th century by Georgia's national poet Shota Rustav ...
'' of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS) (now
Georgian National Academy of Sciences
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).
Pavle Ingorokva's main fields of the scientific activity were the history of the Georgian literature, history of Georgia, source studies of the history of Georgia, Rustavelology (Study of the works of the mediaeval Georgian writer
Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...
), history of Georgian script, etc. Some of his findings have proved extremely contentious and most western scholars dispute them, claiming his work is biased from an
ethno-nationalistic
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perspective; this is especially in regard to his discussion of the
ethnogenesis
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This can originate by group self-identification or by outside identification.
The term ''ethnogenesis'' was originally a mid-19th century neologism that was later introdu ...
of the Georgians and
Abkhaz, and the age of the
Georgian alphabet.
[A discussion of Ingoroqva’s work can be found in Bruno Coppieters, “In Defence of the Homeland: Intellectuals and the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict” in Secession, History and the Social Sciences, ed. by Bruno Coppieters and Michel Huysseune, (VUB Press, 2002), p. 93-94.]
See also
*
List of Georgians
This is a list of notable Georgians.
Leaders and politicians
* Pharnavaz I of Iberia, Pharnavaz I, King of Iberia from 302 to 237 BC
* Vakhtang I of Iberia, Vakhtang I Gorgasali, King of Iberia from 447/449–502/522
* David the Builder (1073– ...
Some main works of Pavle Ingorokva
* ''Rustveliana'' (a monograph about
Shota Rustaveli
Shota Rustaveli ( ka, შოთა რუსთაველი, c. 1160 – after c. 1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of th ...
), Tbilisi, 1926, 200 pp. (in
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 ...
)
* ''The Georgian inscriptions of Antique'' - Bulletin of the Institute of Language, History and Material Culture (ENIMK), vol. X, Tbilisi, 1941, pp. 411–427 (in Georgian)
* ''The old Georgian chronicle "Moktsevai Kartlisai" and the List of the Kings of
Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
**
**
* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in southwestern Europe, defi ...
'' (a monograph).- Bulletin of the State Museum of Georgia, vol. XI-B, Tbilisi, 1942, pp. 259–320 (in Georgian)
* ''Giorgi Merchule: kartveli mcerali meate sauvunisa: narkvevi zveli Sakartvelos literaturis, kulturis da saxelmcip oebrivi cxovrebis istoriidan'', (Tbilisi; "Sabcota mcerali”, 1954).
'Giorgi Merchule - Georgian writer of the 10th century'' (a monograph) Tbilisi, 1954, 1000 pp. (in Georgian)
* ''Ilia Chavchavadze'' (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1951, 200 pp. (in Georgian)
References
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1893 births
1983 deaths
20th-century historians from Georgia (country)
People from Poti
Philologists from Georgia (country)
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Soviet historians
Burials at Didube Pantheon