Akaki Shanidze

Akaki Shanidze and Giorgi Tsereteli. 1960

Akaki Gavrilovich Shanidze (Georgian: აკაკი შანიძე) (26 February 1887 - 29 March 1987) was a Georgian linguist and philologist. 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).

Shanidze graduated from the St. Petersburg University in 1909. His numerous works heavily influenced modern scholarly research of the Georgian and its sister languages (Kartvelian, or South Caucasian group) both in Georgia and abroad (thanks to his tutorship of the Norwegian Kartvelologist Hans Vogt).

During his career, he was awarded:

• 3 Orders of Lenin
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Order of Friendship of Peoples
• Order of the Badge of Honour
• Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
• Medal "For Labour Valour"

See also

• List of Georgians

References

• Shanidze, Akaki. In: Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.
• Akaki Shanidze Foundations