Akaki Shanidze ( ka, აკაკი შანიძე; 26 February 1887 – 29 March 1987) was a Georgian linguist and philologist, born in Nogha,

Samtredia Samtredia ( ka, სამტრედია ) is a town in Imereti, Georgia (country), Georgia, lying in a lowland between the rivers Rioni River, Rioni and Tskhenis-Tsqali, west of the capital Tbilisi, and west of Georgia's third largest city K ...

. He was one of the founders of the

Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University ( ka, ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი, tr; often shorten ...

(1918) and

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of the

Georgian Academy of Sciences The Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS) ( ka, საქართველოს მეცნიერებათა ეროვნული აკადემია, tr) is the main learned society of Georgia. It was named the Georgia ...

(1941); Doctor of Philological Sciences (1920), Professor (1920). He became a doctor in Tbilisi State University. His most important Georgian works were in linguistic sciences. Shanidze graduated from the

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in 1909. His numerous works heavily influenced modern scholarly research of the Georgian and its sister

Kartvelian languages The Kartvelian languages ( ; ka, ქართველური ენები, tr; also known as South Caucasian or Kartvelic languages Boeder (2002), p. 3) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Geor ...

both in Georgia and abroad with his tutorship of the Norwegian Kartvelologist Hans Vogt. During his career, he was awarded: * 3

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Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin" A jubilee is often used to refer to the celebration of a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term comes from the Hebrew Bible (see, "Old Testament"), initially concerning ...

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Shanidze died in

Tbilisi 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 ( ...

on March 29, 1987.

References

*''Shanidze, Akaki''. In
Dictionary of Georgian National Biography

1887 births 1987 deaths Linguists from Georgia (country) Philologists from Georgia (country) Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Men centenarians from Georgia (country) Academic staff of Tbilisi State University Kartvelian studies scholars Members of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences Linguists from the Soviet Union 20th-century philologists Honoured Scientists of Georgia (country) {{Georgia-linguist-stub

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