Akaki Shanidze

Georgian linguist and philologist (1887–1987)

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Akaki Shanidze
1963
Born	(1887-02-26)February 26, 1887
Died	March 29, 1987(1987-03-29) (aged 100) Tbilisi
Resting place	Nogha, Samtredia
Occupation	Linguist
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Akaki Shanidze (Georgian: აკაკი შანიძე; 26 February 1887 – 29 March 1987) was a Georgian linguist and philologist, born in Nogha, Samtredia. He was one of the founders of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (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 St. Petersburg University in 1909. His numerous works heavily influenced modern scholarly research of the Georgian and its sister Kartvelian languages both in Georgia and abroad with his tutorship of the Norwegian Kartvelologist Hans Vogt.

During his career, he was awarded:

Shanidze died in Tbilisi on March 29, 1987.