The Most Famous

HISTORIANS from Georgia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Georgian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 561 Historians, 1 of which were born in Georgia. This makes Georgia the birth place of the 48th most number of Historians behind Slovenia, and Canada.

Top 4

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Georgian Historians of all time. This list of famous Georgian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Ivane Javakhishvili (1876 - 1940)

With an HPI of 53.46, Ivane Javakhishvili is the most famous Georgian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.

Ivane Alexandres dze Javakhishvili (Georgian: ივანე ჯავახიშვილი; 23 April 1876 – 18 November 1940) was a Georgian historian and linguist whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926.

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2. Vakhushti of Kartli (1696 - 1757)

With an HPI of 52.72, Vakhushti of Kartli is the 2nd most famous Georgian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Vakhushti (Georgian: ვახუშტი; c. 1696 – 1757) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, Description of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Geographical Atlas, were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013.

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3. Alexander Svanidze (1886 - 1941)

With an HPI of 52.06, Alexander Svanidze is the 3rd most famous Georgian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages.

Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე სვანიძე; Russian: Александр Семёнович Сванидзе) (1886 – 20 August 1941) was a Georgian Old Bolshevik, politician and historian. He was a personal friend of Joseph Stalin and a brother of Stalin’s first wife Kato. Nevertheless, he was arrested during the Great Purge in 1937 and he was shot in prison in 1941.

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4. Ekvtime Takaishvili (1863 - 1953)

With an HPI of 48.11, Ekvtime Takaishvili is the 4th most famous Georgian Historian.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Ekvtime Takaishvili (also spelled Taqaishvili, Georgian: ექვთიმე თაყაიშვილი; January 5, 1862 – February 21, 1953) was a Georgian historian, archaeologist and public benefactor. Born in the village of Likhauri in the western Georgian province of Guria to a local nobleman Svimon Takaishvili, he graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1887. From 1887 to 1917, he lectured on the history of Georgia at various prestigious schools in Tbilisi, including the Tbilisi Gymnasium for Nobility. During these years, he was actively involved in extensive scholarly activities and chaired, from 1907 to 1921, the Society of History and Ethnography of Georgia. Between 1907 and 1910, he organized a series of archaeological expeditions to the historic Georgian region of Tao-Klarjeti (now part of Turkey). After the February Revolution, he engaged also in politics, taking part in the establishment of the National Democratic Party of Georgia in 1917 and being elected to a post of Deputy Chairman in the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia from 1919 to 1921.

People

Pantheon has 4 people classified as Georgian historians born between 1696 and 1886. Of these 4, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Georgian historians include Ivane Javakhishvili, Vakhushti of Kartli, and Alexander Svanidze. As of April 2024, 3 new Georgian historians have been added to Pantheon including Vakhushti of Kartli, Alexander Svanidze, and Ekvtime Takaishvili.

Deceased Georgian Historians

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