Sargis N. Kakabadze (October 7, 1886 – April 2, 1967) was a

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historian and philologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor. He was born in 1886, in a small village Kukhi (

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region of Western Georgia). In 1910 he graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the St.Petersburg University (

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). In 1911-1918 he was a teacher of History of the Georgian Gymnasium of

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, in 1919-1967 Professor of the

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

(TSU), in 1921-1926 Director of the State Historical Archive of Georgia, in 1945-1961 head of the Department of the Old Acts of this Archive. Main fields of scientific activity of Sargis Kakabadze were: history of Georgia, source studies of the history of Georgia and the

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, history of Georgian literature, Rustvelology (

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was a great Georgian poet of the 12th century), etc. He was author of more than 100 scientific-research articles and many important monographs. Sargis Kakabadze died in 1967, in

Selected works

* "Character of the feudal system in Georgia of the end of Middle Ages" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1912 (in Russian) * "About the Georgian historians of the 11th century" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1912 (in Russian) * "Social-economic questions of Georgia of the Middle Ages" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1927 (in Russian) * "Vakhtang Gorgasali" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1959 (in Georgian) * "Rustaveli and his poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin"" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1966 (in Georgian) * Kakabadze S., Queen Tamar: Her Significance, translated by Michael P.Willis, 2017. {{DEFAULTSORT:Kakabadze, Sargis 1886 births 1967 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon Academic staff of Tbilisi State University 20th-century historians from Georgia (country) Soviet historians