Zurab Avalishvili
Politician
1876 – 1944
Who was Zurab Avalishvili?
Zurab Avalishvili was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, into the family of Prince David Avalishvili, he graduated from St. Petersburg University in 1900 and took post-graduate courses at the Department of Law, University of Paris from 1900 to 1903. He became a Docent at the St. Petersburg University in 1904 and a Professor of Public Law at the St. Petersburg Polytechnical Institute in 1907. He was an official adviser to the Russian Ministry of Trade and Commerce for many years.
After the February Revolution in Russia, Avalishvili was named a Senator by the Provisional Government in May 1917. When Georgia declared independence on May 26, 1918, Avalishvili entered Georgian diplomatic service and was appointed a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He rendered important services to his homeland as a member of her delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
The Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile in March 1921. He lived thereafter in Germany where he worked as a Professor at the University of Munich. He was one of the founding members of the Georgian Association in Germany and worked for the editorial boars of historical journals Georgica and Byzantion. He died in 1944, in Germany, and was reburied to Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi, in 1994.
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- Born
- 1876
Tbilisi - Religion
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Ethnicity
- Georgians
- Lived in
- Tbilisi
- Died
- May 21, 1944
Munich
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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