Kalistrat Salia
Male, Deceased Person
1901 – 1986
Who was Kalistrat Salia?
Kalistrate Salia was a Georgian émigré historian and philologist active in France.
Salia was born on July 18, 1901, in Mingrelia, western Georgia. He studied at Zugdidi and Khashuri before enrolling into the University of Tbilisi in 1920. After the Soviet takeover of Georgia in 1921, he went to Germany where he studied at the Institute of German Language, University of Berlin. He moved to France in 1924 and graduated from the University of Paris in 1927. In 1948, together with his wife Nino Salia, he founded and edited the journal Bedi Kartlisa dedicated to the Kartvelian studies. He published a series of scholarly works on the history and literature of Georgia and wrote Georgia-related entries for foreign encyclopedias. His 1980 work Histoire de la nation géorgienne was awarded the prize of the French Academy of Sciences.
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