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

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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 Teimuraz Bagrationi ( ka, თეიმურაზ ბაგრატიონი) otherwise known as Tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich (russian: царевич Теймураз Георгиевич) (April 23, 1782 – October 25, 1846) was a Georg ...

(1782–1846) *

David Chubinashvili David Chubinashvili ( ka, დავით ჩუბინაშვილი; September 26, 1814 – June 5, 1891), otherwise known as David Yesseevich Chubinov (or Tchoubinoff, russian: link=no, Давид Йессеевич Чубинов) by the ...

(1814–1891) *

Alexander Khakhanov Aleksandr Solomonovich Khakhanov (russian: Александр Соломонович Хаханов) born Aleksandre Khakhanashvili ( ka, ალექსანდრე ხახანაშვილი) (January 3, 1866 – May 25, 1912) was a Ge ...

(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 (1879–1962) *

Ilia Abuladze Ilia Abuladze ( ka, ილია აბულაძე) (November 24, 1901 – October 9, 1968) was a distinguished Georgian historian, philologist and public figure, a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS) (1950), Meri ...

(1901–1968) * Simon Kaukhchishvili (1895–1981) * Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002) * Irine Melikishvili (1943–2013) * Georges Charachidzé (1930–2010) * Merab Chukhua (born 1964)

International scholars

* Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834) * Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802–1880) * Arthur Leist (1852–1927) * John Oliver Wardrop (1864–1948) * Marjory Wardrop (1869–1909) * Robert Pierpont Blake (1886–1950) *

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(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 de ...

(1910-1994) * Cyril Toumanoff (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 (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) *

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(1934–2003) * Heinz Fähnrich (born 1941) * Kevin Tuite (born 1954) * Donald Rayfield * Brian George Hewitt (born 1949) *

Stephen H. Rapp Stephen H. Rapp Jr is an American professor and scholar of history, with a focus and primary research investigating the Roman Empire, ancient Iran, Armenia and Georgia. He is a professor of history at Sam Houston State University. Education and c ...

* Stephen F. Jones * Constantine B. Lerner * Mine Kadiroğlu * Luigi Magarotto * Bernard Outtier *

Farshid Delshad Farshid Delshad ( fa, فرشید دلشاد) is an affiliated researcher, scholar of linguistics and Iranian Studies. He was Lecturer of Persian and Comparative Linguistics at University of Freiburg and at University of Bern. Delshad's first Ph ...

(born 1972) * Jost Gippert * Roland Bielmeier * Michael Job * Katharine Vivian (1917–2010) *

Hirotake Maeda Hirotake Maeda is Professor of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tokyo Metropolitan University. He specializes in Middle Eastern Studies, Eurasian Studies, and the histories of Iran and the Caucasus. He focuses in particul ...

* 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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