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Akaki Shanidze
Georgian linguist and philologist (1887–1987) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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:
- 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"
Shanidze died in Tbilisi on March 29, 1987.
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