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

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Biography

Educated at

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, Ioseliani taught physics and philosophy at

Tbilisi Theological Seminary Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary ( ka, თბილისის სასულიერო სემინარია, tr; ) is a seminary in Tbilisi, Georgia. It operated from 1817 to 1919 under the name Tiflis Theological Seminary in ...

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 . 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

Iviron Monastery The Monastery of Iviron ( ka, ათონის ივერთა მონასტერი , tr; ) is an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, ...

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. He discovered and studied several old Georgian manuscripts, conducted substantial research on the history of the

Georgian Orthodox Church The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia ( ka, საქართველოს სამოციქულო ავტოკეფალური მართლმადიდებელი ეკლესია, tr), commonl ...

and published pieces of medieval and early modern Georgian literature. Beyond that, Ioseliani was the first scholar to study the evolution of urban settlements in Georgia. One of his last major works, that on the reign of the last king of Georgia,

George XII George XII ( ka, გიორგი XII, tr), sometimes known as George XIII (10 November 1746 – 28 December 1800), of the House of Bagrationi, was the second and last king (''mepe'') of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti in eastern Georgia from 1 ...

(), was published posthumously in the Georgian magazine 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