Nikoloz (Lasha) Janashia ( Georgian: ნიკოლოზ (ლაშა) ჯანაშია; November 18, 1931 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 ( ...

– September 7, 1982 in Tbilisi) was a famous Georgian

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

and public benefactor. Janashia born in

, son of a noted Georgian historian

Simon Janashia Simon Janashia ( ka, სიმონ ჯანაშია; July 13, 1900 – November 5, 1947) was a Georgia (country), Georgian historian and public figure. He was a professor of history and one of the founding members of the Georgian Academy of ...

(1900–1947). In 1954, Janashia graduated from the faculty of history of the

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

. He began as a research fellow at the Institute of History and Ethnology 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 ...

(GAS) in 1957. After he received his PhD in history in 1962, he came a senior research fellow at GAS, and from 1970 to 1982, he served as a deputy director of its Institute of Manuscripts. He was also hired as an associate professor at Tbilisi State University in 1965, a position he maintained until his death. Janashia also served as a scientific secretary of the Historical Society of Georgia, a member of the Commission of the source studies of the history of Georgia of the Presidium of GAS. The main fields of Janashia's research were the history of Georgia of the 4th-5th centuries, and Georgian and Armenian sources of the history of Georgia.

Bibliography

* ''The data of Lazar Pharpetsi about Georgia,'' Tbilisi, 1963, 120 pp (in Georgian) * ''Kartli in the 4th century - Essays on Georgian History, Vol. II,'' Tbilisi, 1973, pp. 57–77 (in Georgian) * ''The Martyrdom of Queen Shushaniki, Part I,'' Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian, English summary) * ''Essays on Source Studies,'' Tbilisi, 1986, 350 pp (in Georgian)

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