Tbilisi State University

თბილისის ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი - თსუ Ivane Javakishvili University of Tbilisi - TSU
founding	January 26, 1918
Sponsorship	state
place	Tbilisi , Georgia
Rector	George Sharvashidze
Students	20,536
Employee	approx. 5,000
Networks	IAU
Website	www.tsu.edu.ge

Tbilisi State University. The main building, called the "White Temple"

The Ivane Javakishvili State University of Tbilisi - TSU ( Georgian თბილისის ივანე ჯავახიშვილის სახელობის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტი - თსუ / Tbilisis Iwane Jawachishwilis Sachelobis Sachelmzipo Uniwersiteti - TSU ) in Tbilisi is the largest university in Georgia and the Caucasus . It has over 20,000 enrolled students and around 5,000 employees.

history

The university is a child of the Georgian independence movement. It was founded on January 26, 1918 with private funds as the Georgian University of Tbilisi . The first lectures took place in the rooms of the Georgian aristocratic high school . The driving force behind the founding was the historian Ivan Jawachishvili . The first rector was Petre Melikishvili. All lectures were initially given in Georgian. That only ended with the incorporation of Georgia into the Soviet Union .

In 1989 the State University of Tbilisi was given the suffix Ivan Jawachishvili.

structure

The TSU is divided into five faculties: law , economics and business administration , humanities , social and political science, and natural sciences . A medical faculty was established in 1994 and has been independent since 2000. The university has 184 chairs, 60 research laboratories and a scientific library with over 3.7 million books and periodicals.

The university has 8 branches in cities in Georgia (Sukhumi, Meskheti, Ozurgeti, Sighnaghi (kakheti), Zugdidi, Qvemo Qartli (Marneuli), Javakheti and Poti). It owns seven museums (university history, Georgian emigration , mineralogy , geology and paleontology , geography , zoology and botany ). In 1923 she founded her own printing company and in 1933 her own publishing house. Since 1927 she is the weekly Tbilisi Universiteti , since 1998 also the weekly Kartuli Universiteti out. The Caucasus Business School (CBS), founded in 1999, is associated with the TSU .

The university has close partnerships with universities and research institutions in the USA, Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, Switzerland, Poland and Iran. In Germany it is the universities in Saarbrücken , Bamberg , Jena and Göttingen . Together with the Friedrich Schiller University Jena , she has been publishing the scientific journal Georgica since 1978 .

The rector of the university is the economist Vladimir Papawa. He is also a member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences .

Academic teachers

The university buildings in 1918

• Giuli Alasania (* 1946), historian (1980s -)
• Zurab Awalishvili (1876–1944), lawyer and historian (1918–1921)
• Simon Dschanaschia (1900-1947), historian and archaeologist (1924-1947)
• Ivan Jawachishvili (1876–1940), historian (1918–1938)
• Dmitri Gulia (1874-1960), writer (1922-1924)
• Arthur Leist (1852-1927), writer and journalist (1918-1922)
• Nikolos Muschelischwili (1891–1976), mathematician (1920–1976)
• Sandra Roelofs (* 1968), linguist (1999–2003)
• Ekwtime Taqaishvili (1863–1953), historian and archaeologist (1918–1921)
• Dawit Turashvili (* 1966), writer, modern literature (2005–)
• Dimitri Usnadze (1886–1950), psychologist (1886–1950)
• Arnold Walfisz (1892–1962), mathematician (1936–1962)
• Ilia Wekua (1907–1977), mathematician (1940–1954)
• Grigol Tsereteli (1870–1938), classical philologist (1920–1937)
• Micheil Zereteli (1878–1965), historian (1919–1921)

Well-known students

• Aslan Abashidze (* 1938), politician (1964)
• Kacha Bendukidse (1956-2014), entrepreneur, politician (until 1977)
• Nino Burjanadze (* 1964), politician (1981–1986)
• Dmitry Fuchs (* 1939), mathematician
• Raminta Gamziukaitė-Mažiulienė (* 1939), literary scholar
• Nona Gaprindashvili (* 1941), world chess champion
• Lado Gurgenidse (* 1970), banker and politician
• Evgeni Gwaladze (1900–1937), resistance fighter (1921–1926)
• Guranda Gwaladze (* 1932), botanist (1951–1956)
• Tamara Kinzuraschwili (* 1970), TV General Director (1991–1994)
• Wachtang Kikabidze (* 1938), film actor and singer (1956–1959)
• Sewarion Kirkitadze (* 1955), TV prosecutor (1976–1977)
• Oleksandr Kwitashvili (* 1970), Georgian and Ukrainian politician
• Giwi Margwelaschwili (1927-2020), writer
• Aka Mortschiladze (* 1966), writer (until 1988)
• Irakli Okruaschwili (* 1973), politician (1990–1995)
• Bulat Okudschawa (1924–1997), poet and songwriter (1945–1950)
• Giorgi Papuaschwili (* 1972), constitutional judge (until 1995)
• Zurab Schwania (1963–2005), politician (1980–1985)
• Konstantin Tsereteli (1921-2004), Semitist
• Giorgi Ugulawa (* 1975), politician (until 1998)
• Levan Uruschadze (1964–2013), historian (1981–1986)
• Rom Warschamow (1927–1999), mathematician

literature

• Tbilisi University . Tbilisi University Press. Tbilisi 1993, ISBN 5-511-00565-7
• I. Vekua [u. a.] (Ed.): Tbilisi University 1918–1968 . Tbilisi University Press. Tbilisi 1968
• IV Petrova (Ed.): Tbilisi University today . Tbilisi University Press. Tbilisi 1968

See also

• List of modern universities in Europe (1801–1945)

Web links

• Tbilisi State University (en, ge)
• History of the University of Tbilisi (en)
• Kristin Höltge: Governance in Transition. What Makes Georgia's Higher Education System So Corrupt? Master's thesis 2005 (PDF file) (en) (ZIP file; 336 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.tsu.ge/en/government/raac/rector//
2. ↑ US News & World Report : Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. 2019. Accessed March 17, 2019
3. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed July 28, 2019 .  
4. ^ "History of the Museum" , accessed on August 16, 2019.

Coordinates: 41 ° 42 ′ 35.7 "  N , 44 ° 46 ′ 42.3"  E