Platon Ioseliani ( ka, პლატონ იოსელიანი) (November 15, 1810 – November 15, 1875) was a Georgian historian and civil servant in the

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service. Educated at

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, Ioseliani taught physics and philosophy at Tbilisi Theological Seminary and later served for the office of the Viceroy of the Caucasus. His articles were regularly published in the Russian and Georgian press. From 1845 to 1856, he edited the Tbilisi-based periodical ''Zakavkazsky Vestnik''. In 1849, with the support of Viceroy Mikhail Vorontsov, he made a state-sponsored trip to

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and visited the medieval Georgian

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. He discovered and studied several old Georgian manuscripts, made substantial research into the history of the

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and published the pieces of medieval and early modern Georgian literature. Beyond that, Iosseliani was the first scholar to have embarked on the study of evolution of the urban settlements in Georgia. One of his last major works, that on the reign of the last king of Georgia, George XII (1798-1800), was published posthumously in the Georgian magazine '' Iveria'' in 1880. Ioseliani was married to Princess Ana Bagration-Mukhraneli (1839–1913).

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1810 births 1875 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon 19th-century historians from Georgia (country) Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 3rd class Historians from the Russian Empire Civil servants of the Russian Empire {{Georgia-historian-stub