Wachtang Djobadze ( ka, ვახტანგ ჯობაძე) (March 8, 1917 – February 10, 2007) was a Georgian

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and

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at the

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. During the

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, he lived as an émigré in the

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, and was the only Georgian scholar to have opportunity to travel to

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where a number of medieval Georgian churches and monasteries lay in ruins in the historical

Tao-Klarjeti Tao-Klarjeti may refer to: * Tao-Klarjeti, part of Georgian historical region of Upper Kartli * Kingdom of Tao-Klarjeti, AD 888 to 1008 {{set index article Kingdom of Iberia Historical regions of Georgia (country) ...

region and

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. He studied and described these monuments in several works, including ''Materials for the Study of Georgian Monasteries in the Western Environs of Antioch on the Orontes'' (1976), ''Archeological Investigations in the Region West of Antioch On-The-Orontes'' (Stuttgart : Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, 1986), ''Early Medieval Georgian Monasteries in Historic Tao, Klarjet'i, and Savset'i'' (Stuttgart : Steiner-Verlag-Wiesbaden-GmbH, 1992). In 1981, he discovered ruins of the medieval Georgian

Gialia Monastery The Gialia Monastery ( ka, ღალია, ''Ğalia''; ) is a ruined Georgian Orthodox monastery from the medieval period. It is located in the village of Gialia, Paphos District, northwest Cyprus. The monastery is dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Th ...

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. He died in

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, on February 10, 2007, and was buried in

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

.The Conference dedicated to the memory of Wachtang Djobadze
The

Institute of Manuscripts of Georgia The Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts ( ka, საქართველოს ხელნაწერთა ეროვნული ცენტრი; formerly the ''Institute of Manuscripts''), located in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a repository ...

. Retrieved on May 28, 2007.

References

1917 births 2007 deaths 20th-century historians from Georgia (country) American art historians California State University, Los Angeles faculty 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers Soviet emigrants to the United States Emigrants from Georgia (country) to the United States {{Georgia-historian-stub