Malkhaz Abdushelishvili

Scientist, Deceased Person

1926 – 1998

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Who was Malkhaz Abdushelishvili?

Malkhaz Abdushelishvili was a famous Georgian scientist, one of the founders of the Georgian scientific school of Anthropology, Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

He was born in 1926, in Tbilisi. In 1948 he graduated from the Tbilisi State Medical University. He received a PhD degree in 1952, and in 1964 a degree of the Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Between 1948 and 1998 Abdushelishvili was a Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow, and Head of the Department of Anthropology of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

From 1964 to 1998, Abdushelishvili was a Professor of the Tbilisi State University.

In 1993 he was elected as Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Main fields of scientific activity of Professor Abdushelishvili were: anthropology of the population of Georgia and the Caucasus, anthropology of the population of India, kranology of the population of the Caucasus, etc. He was author about 200 scientific-research works and more than 10 monographs.

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Born
Nov 28, 1926
Tbilisi
Profession
Education
  • Tbilisi State Medical University
Lived in
  • Tbilisi
Died
Feb 23, 1998

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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