Elguja Khintibidze

Date of Birth: 07.06.1937

Professor. Philologist.

In 1963 he defended a thesis for a Candidate's degree: "Georgian Redactions of Basil the Great's Asceticon".
In 1971 he defended a thesis for a Doctor's degree: "World outlook Problems in Rustaveli's Poem The Man in the Panther's Skin".
He is an expert in the field of the history of medieval Georgian literature and Georgian-Byzantine literary contacts.
He gives the following courses of lectures at Tbilisi State University:
History of old Georgian literature, Rustaveli studies and Georgian-Byzantine literary contacts.

He is Director of the Centre for Kartvelian (Georgian) Studies and Head of Laboratory of Georgian-Foreign Literary Research at Tbilisi State University.
He has been awarded the Prize of Ivane Javakhishvili (Tbilisi) and International Order of Merit - IOM (Cambridge).

Corresponding Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
Member titulaire of S.I.E.P.M. - Sociйtй Internationale pour L'Etude de la Philosophie Mйdiйvale (Belgique);
Honorary member of the International Biographical Centre (Cambridge);
Honorary member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute (Raleigh, N.C., USA).
He is participant of international congresses and symposia and has delivered of lectures at the Universities of Madrid, Basco, Tel-Aviv, Helsinki, Turku, Ottawa, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Massachusetts at Amherst, Georgetown, London, Oxford, Rome, Venice, Erfurt.

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He is the author of about 160 published scholarly works.

• 1. Georgian-Byzantine Literary Contacts (Georgian ed. Tb. 1969 and 1982; Russian - Tb. 1989; English - Amsterdam 1996)
• 2. Georgian Redactions of Basil the Great's Asceticon (Georg. ed. Tb. 1968)
• 3. World outlook Problems in Rustaveli's Poem The Man in the Panther's Skin (Georg. ed. Tb. 1975)
• 4. Concerning the Relationship of the Georgian and Greek Versions of Barlaam and Ioasaph (English ed. Paris 1976)
• 5. The Passion of Shushanik and Old Byzantine Literature (Russian ed. Tb. 1978)
• 6. The Georgian Literary School of Mount Athos (Russian ed. Tb. 1982)
• 7. Medieval and Renaissance Trends in Rustaveli's Poem (Georg. ed. 1993)
• 8. Die Hauptentwicklungsrichtung des gesellschaftsphilosophischen Denkens im Georgien des 12. Jahrhunderts. - In: "Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. 22. Jahrgang. Heft 3. Jena 1973 (in German)
• 9. Zur Stellung Rustwelis in der Geschichte des Mittelalterlichen Denkens. - In: "Revue de kartvelologie", vol. 32, Paris 1974 (in German)
• 10. Ekwtime Atoneli, der Verfasser der griechischen Version von "Barlaam und Joasaph". - In: "Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift". 26. Jahrgang. Half 1. Jena 1977 (in German)
• 11. Literary Contacts in old Georgia. - In: "Russian and Georgian Medieval Literatures", Leningrad 1979 (in Russian. Co- author)
• 12. Die Дsthetik der Renaissance und die georgische Renaissance. - In: "Georgica", Heft 4, Jena-Tbilissi 1981 (in German)
• 13. Aristotle and Rustaveli. - In: "Proceedings of the World Congress on Aristotle", Athens 1981 (in English)
• 14. Die georgische Literaturschule vom Athos. - In: "Georgica", 5, Jena-Tbilissi 1982 (in German)
• 15. Das Problem der georgischen Schrift und Schrifttumsentstehung. - In: "Georgica", Heft 8, Jena-Tbilissi 1985 (in German)
• 16. Contactos literarios bizantino-georgianos. - In: "Erytheia" N8.1, 1987 Madrid (in Spanish)
• 17. The Development of Socio-Philosophical and Literary Thought in Georgia and Ilia Chavchavadze. - In: "International Social Science Journal", May, 1988 Paris (in English, French, Spanish. Co- authors)
• 18. Elements of Medieval Sciences in Rustaveli's Poem. - In: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Philosophy", v. III, 1990 Helsinki (in English)
• 19. Negotiations between the Georgian and Spanish Kings at the End of the Fifteenth Century. - In: "Mediterranean Historical Review", vol. 6, N2, 1991 London (in English)
• 20. A New Argument Toward the Identification of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite with Peter the Iberian. - In: "Vizantolgicheskye ocherki", Tb. 1991 (in Russian)
• 21. The Theory of Easten Renaissance and Rustaveli's World outlook. - In: "Georgian and Russian Medieval Literatures", Tb. 1991 (in Russian)
• 22.The Ovtlook of Rustaveli and Medieval Process of Religious, Philosophical and Literary Thought. - In: "An International Shota Rustaveli Symposium", Turku 1991 (in English)
• 23. Die Stellung Rustwelis im Prozess des mittelalterlichen Denkens und die moderne Literaturwissenschaft. - In: "Georgica", 13/14, Konstanz 1991/92 (in German)
• 24. Towards the Etymology of the Ethnonym Kart and its Relation to the Greek Designations of the Georgians. - In: "International Conference Dedicated to Simeon Kaukhchishvili", Tb. 1995 (in English)
• 25. Towards the Interpretation of the Ethnonym Iber. - In: " International Conference Dedicated to the 120th birth Anniversary of Ivane Javakhishvili", Tb. 1996 (in English)

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