Ilia Abuladze
Male, Deceased Person
1901 – 1968
Who was Ilia Abuladze?
Ilia Abuladze was a distinguished Georgian historian, philologist and public figure, a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Meritorious Science Worker of Georgia, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor.
Abuladze was born in a small village in Imereti. In 1927 he graduated from the Tbilisi State University and engaged in academic work since 1932. He was a scholar specializing in the history of ild Georgian literature and the Armeno-Georgian literary and cultural relations. He is also renowned for having rediscovered the lost alphabet of Caucasian Albanians.
In 1950 Abuladze was elected a Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. In 1958 he organized the Institute of Manuscripts of the GAS and became its lifelong director. In 1938-1968 Abuladze was a Professor of the Tbilisi State University.
Abuladze published critical editions of all major Georgian hagiographical works in the monumental series of Works of Old Georgian Hagiographical Literature. Having taken a special interest in Armenian sources, Abuladze edited the medieval Armenian adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. He also discovered and studied the ancient Old Udi script and compiled Dictionary of the Old Georgian Language.
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