Giorgi Tsereteli 452447 187994064 2008-01-30T20:41:18Z CmdrObot 1079367 sp (2): a Honorary→an Honorary [[Image:GiorgiTsereteli.jpg|thumb|230px|Giorgi Tsereteli]] '''Giorgi Tsereteli''' ('''გიორგი წერეთელი''' in [[Georgian language|Georgian]]. [[October 8]], [[1904]]-[[September 9]], [[1973]]) was a distinguished [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies and Arabist of world renown, founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the [[Tbilisi State University]] (TSU), founder and first Director of the [[Institute of Oriental Studies]] of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] (GAS), [[Academician]] of GAS, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor. == Life and works == Giorgi Tsereteli was born in [[1904]], in village [[Tianeti]] (Eastern Georgia). His father, Prince [[Vasil Tsereteli]] (1862-1937) was a well-known Georgian physician, journalist and public benefactor. His uncle [[Mikheil Tsereteli]] (1878-1965) was a distinguished historian. In [[1927]] Tsereteli graduated from the [[Tbilisi State University]] (TSU). In [[1928]]-[[1931]] he was a Post-Graduate Student of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Union (since 1991 - [[Russian Academy of Science]]), in [[1931]]-[[1933]] Associate Professor of the Leningrad (now [[St.Petersburg]]) [[State Institute of Living Oriental Languages]]. In [[1933]]-[[1973]] he was Associate Professor (1933-1942) and Professor (1942-1973) of the Tbilisi State University. [[1933]]-[[1937]] - Senior Research Fellow of the [[State Museum of Georgia]]. In [[1940]]-[[1960]] Tsereteli was a Head of the Department of Oriental Languages of the [[Institute of Linguistics]] of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). In [[1942]] he received a degree of the Doctor of Philological Sciences and scientific title of Professor. In [[1945]] Tsereteli was a founder of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of TSU, in [[1945]]-[[1973]] Head of the Department of [[Semitology]] of this Faculty. In [[1946]] he was elected as Academician (Full Member) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). In [[1957]]-[[1967]] he was Academician-Secretary (Chairman) of the Department of [[Social Sciences]] of GAS, in [[1967]]-[[1970]] Vice-President of GAS, in [[1970]]-[[1973]] member of the Presidium of the Academy. In [[1960]] Tsereteli founded the [[Institute of Oriental Studies]] of GAS. In [[1960]]-[[1973]] he was a first Director of this Institute. In [[1968]] Tsereteli was elected as Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Soviet Union (now [[Russian Academy of Science]]). He was also an Honorary Member of the [[Royal Asiatic Society of the Great Britain and Ireland]] (1964) and an Honorary Member of the Society of Orientalists of [[Poland]] (1966). Main fields of scientific activity of Giorgi Tsereteli were: Arabic dialects of the Central Asia, Arabic linguistics and folklore, Hebrew and Aramaic studies, history of old languages of the Near East, history of writing systems, history of the Georgian script, source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus, Rustvelology, questions of theoretical linguistics, etc. He was author of 100 important scientific-research works and about 10 monographs. Giorgi Tsereteli died in [[1973]], in [[Tbilisi]]. He is buried in the garden of the Tbilisi State University. == Some of main scientific works of Giorgi Tsereteli == * "The Urartian inscriptions of the State Museum of Georgia" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1939, 110 pp. (in Georgian, Russian and English) * "The Armazi inscription of the period of Mithridats the Iberian".- Proceedings of the XXV International Congress of Orientalists, Moscow, 1962, pp. 374-378 (in Russian, English summary) * "The Bilingual inscriptions from Armazi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1941, 80 pp. (in Russian, English summary) * "Arabic Dialects of the Central Asia. Bukhara Dialect" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1956, 343 pp. (in Russian, English summary) * "The ancient Georgian inscriptions from Palestine" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1960, 110 pp. (in Georgian and English) * "The Meter and Rhyme in [[Shota Rustaveli]]'s Poem "The Man in the Panther's Skin" (a monograph).- "The Meter and Rhyme in "The Man in the Panther's Skin"". Edited by G.V. Tsereteli, Tbilisi, 1973, pp. 2-120 (in Georgian) * "The influence of the Tajik language on the vocalism of Central Asian Arabic dialects".- BSOAS, vol. XXXIII, Part 1, London, 1970, pp. 167-170 * "The Verbal Particle m/mi in Bukhara Arabic".- "Folia Orientalia", vol. XII, 1970, pp. 29-35. == See also == * [[List of Georgians]] * [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] * [[Tbilisi State University]] == External links == * [http://www.webhostcorp.com/members/gtsereteli Professor Giorgi Tsereteli's Memorial Page] * [http://www.acnet.ge/orient.htm The G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies] * [http://www.acnet.ge The Georgian Academy of Sciences] {{DEFAULTSORT:Tsereteli, Giorgi}} [[Category:1904 births]] [[Category:1973 deaths]] [[Category:Georgian historians]] [[Category:Orientalists]] [[Category:Semitologists]] [[Category:Tbilisi State University faculty]]