Shalva Nutsubidze (December 14, 1888 - January 6, 1969) was a
GeorgianGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the
Tbilisi State UniversityTbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February, 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...
(TSU), founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy,
AcademicianThe title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries it is a honorary title."Academician" may also be a functional title and denote a full member of the National Academy of Sciences in those countries where the academy has a strong influence on...
of the
Georgian Academy of SciencesThe Georgian National Academy of Sciences is a main learned society of the Georgia. It was named Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences until November 1990...
(GAS), Meritorious Scientific Worker of
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, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor.
Nutsubidze was born in 1888, in a small Georgian village Partskhanakanebi (near
KutaisiKutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...
, Western Georgia).
Shalva Nutsubidze (December 14, 1888 - January 6, 1969) was a
GeorgianGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
philosopher, translator and public benefactor, one of founders of the
Tbilisi State UniversityTbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February, 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...
(TSU), founder of Alethology, one of founders of the scientific school in the field of history of Georgian philosophy,
AcademicianThe title Academician denotes a Full Member of an art, literary, or scientific academy.In many countries it is a honorary title."Academician" may also be a functional title and denote a full member of the National Academy of Sciences in those countries where the academy has a strong influence on...
of the
Georgian Academy of SciencesThe Georgian National Academy of Sciences is a main learned society of the Georgia. It was named Georgian SSR Academy of Sciences until November 1990...
(GAS), Meritorious Scientific Worker of
GeorgiaGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
, Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Professor.
Nutsubidze was born in 1888, in a small Georgian village Partskhanakanebi (near
KutaisiKutaisi is Georgia's second largest city and the capital of the western region of Imereti. It is 221 km to the west of Tbilisi.-Geography:...
, Western Georgia). In 1910 he graduated from the St.Petersburg University (
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). In 1911-1914 he was a Post-Graduate student of the
University of LeipzigThe University of Leipzig , located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony, Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe and the second-oldest university in Germany...
(
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). In 1915 Nutsubidze received a PhD degree.
In 1916-1918 he was Associate Professor of the St.Petersburg University. In 1918 he was one of founders of the
Tbilisi State UniversityTbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University, better known as Tbilisi State University , is a university established on 8 February, 1918 in Tbilisi, Georgia. TSU is the oldest university in the whole Caucasus region...
(TSU). In 1918-1953 and 1960-1969 Nutsubidze was Professor of TSU (in 1920-1929 - Vice-Rector).
In 1925-1926 he was Visiting Professor of the University of Leipzig. In 1927 he received a degree of Doctor of Philosophical Sciences.
In 1944 Nutsubidze was elected as Academician (Full Member) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).
Main fields of scientific activity of Shalva Nutsubidze were: alethology, history of Georgian philosophy, history of the old Georgian literature, Rustvelology, problems of the oriental renessance. He was a well-known translator also: he translated
The Knight in the Panther's SkinThe Knight in the Panther's Skin is an epic poem, consisting of over 1600 quatrains, was written in the 12th century by the Georgian epic-poet Shota Rustaveli, who was a Prince and Treasurer at the royal court of Queen Tamar of Georgia...
of
Shota RustaveliShota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, and the greatest classic of Georgian secular literature. He is author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , the Georgian national epic poem.- Biography :...
,
VisramianiVisramiani is a medieval Georgian version of the old Iranian love story Vīs and Rāmīn, traditionally taken to have been rendered in prose by Sargis of T'mogvi, a 12th/13th-century statesman and writer active during the reign of Queen Tamar Visramiani is a medieval Georgian version of the old...
and other outstanding literary works in Russian. Nutsubidze is co-author of well-known Theory about identity of Pseudo-Denys Areopagit and Georgian philosopher of the 5th century
Peter the IberianPeter the Iberian, or Peter of Iberia, is a Georgian Orthodox saint, who was a prominent figure in early Christianity....
(Theory of Nutsubidze-Honigmann).
Nutsubidze died in 1969, in
TbilisiTbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
. He is buried in the garden of the Tbilisi State University.
Some of main works of Shalva Nutsubidze
- Sh. Nutsubidze. "Bolzano and theory of Science".- "Voprosi Filosofii i Psikhologii", vol. I-II, St.Petersburg, 1913 (in Russian)
- Sch. Nutsubidse. "Wahrheit und Erkenntnisstruktur. Erste Einleitung in den Aletheiologischen Realismus" (a monograph), Berlin-Leipzig, 1926 (in German)
- Sch. Nutsubidse. "Philosophie und Weisheit. Specielle Einleitung in die Aletheiologie" (a monograph), Berlin-Kenigsberg, 1931 (in German)
- Sh. Nutsubidze. "Mystery of Pseudo-Dionys Areopagit (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1942 (in Russian, English summary)
- Sh. Nutsubidze. "Rustaveli and the Oriental Renessance" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1947, 1967 (in Russian)
- Sh. Nutsubidze. "History of Georgian Philosophy", Vol. I, Tbilisi, 1956; Vol. II, Tbilisi, 1958 (in Georgian)
- Sh. Nutsubidze. "Peter of Iberian and problems of the Areopagitics".- Proceedings of the Tbilisi State University, vol. 65, Tbilisi, 1957 (in Russian)