Akaki Tsereteli
Prince Akaki Tsereteli ( Georgian აკაკი წერეთელი ; born June 9, 1840 in Schwitori , Russian Empire , † January 26, 1915 in Satschere , Russian Empire) was a Georgian poet and politician and one of the leading figures of the Georgian national movement.
Life
He came from a wealthy aristocratic family. The mother came from the Imeretic royal family. According to tradition, he grew up in a farming family until he was six years old. He passed the Abitur at the Georgian grammar school in Kutaisi . In 1863 he finished studying oriental languages at the University of Saint Petersburg .
Tsereteli was initially a freelance author, later an editor of the satirical magazine Jester and co-founder of the Society for the Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians . Together with Ilia Tschavtschawadze a member of the liberal and social reformist writers' association Tergdaleuni , he became one of the spokesmen in the struggle for self-determination and freedom in Georgia.
His poems ( Suliko , Der Tutor , Tornike Eristavi ), stories ( Bashi-Achuki ) and plays ( Gamzrdeli ) were devoted to historical topics and the lack of freedom of the Georgian farmers. They made him a popular poet prince during his lifetime. In the first Georgian film in 1912 , Tsereteli was the main actor. It was a documentary for his 72nd birthday and showed him on a trip through western Georgia.
He was married to the Russian Natalja Basilewskaja. After his death he was buried in what is now the Pantheon on Mtatsminda in Tbilisi .
The Akaki Tsereteli State University of Kutaisi bears his name. His portrait is depicted on the front of the Georgian 10 Lari banknote. In the house where he was born in Schwitori there is a museum about the life of the writer.
According to him, the station was Tsereteli ( Zeretlis Gamsiri ) of Tbilisi Metro named.
literature
- Steffi Chotiwari-Jünger: Ceret'eli, Akaki (Z (Ts) ereteli, Akaki) . in: Gero von Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature . Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 2004
- Aleksandr Alekseevič Kutelija: Filosofskie i obščestvenno-političeskie vzuljady Akakija Cereteli . Merani, Tbilisi 1972
- Manana V. Moniava: Akakij Cereteli - publicist . Tbilisskogo Univ., Tbilisi 1991
- Nana Pruije: Akaki Ceret'lis mxatvruli prozis problematikisa da mxatvruli struk'turisat'vis . T'bilisis Univ. Gamomc'emloba, Tbilisi 1999
- Oliver Reisner: The Tergdaleulebi: Founders of Georgian National Identity. In: Ladislaus Löb, István Petrovics, and György E. Szonyi (Eds.): Forms of Identity: Definitions and Changes. Attila Jozsef University, Szeged 1994, pp. 125-37
- Oliver Reisner: The school of the Georgian nation: A socio-historical investigation of the national movement in Georgia using the example of the "Society for the spread of literacy among the Georgians": (1850-1917) . Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-89500-412-X
Works
- Akaki R. Tsereteli : Basi-Acuki / 4 3000 . Pk teaching printer, Berlin 1944
- Akaki Cereteli: Gamzrdeli. namdvili ambavi . Nakaduli, Tbilisi 1957
- Akaki Cereteli: C'veni saunje. Rc'euli . Tbilisi 1960
- Akaki Cereteli: T'ornike Erist'avi. Nakaduli . Tbilisi 1971
- Akaki Cereteli: Basi-Ac'uki. Nakaduli . Tbilisi 1982
- Akaki R. Tsereteli : Lirika . Merani, Tbilisi 1990
- Akaki Cereteli: Ert'oba c'vent'vis taxtia . Nakaduli, Tbilisi 1991, ISBN 5-525-00165-9
- Akaki Tsereteli: From my life . Manesse Verlag, Zurich 1990 - ISBN 3-7175-8167-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Akaki Tsereteli in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV Akaki Zeretelis (en) ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Akaki Zereteli's grave on the Tbilisi Pantheon (ge, en) ( Memento from December 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsereteli, Akaki |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | წერეთელი, აკაკი (Georgian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian writer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1840 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwitori, Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1915 |
| Place of death | Satschere, Russian Empire |