Alexander of Zagareli

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Alexander Anton von Zagareli ( also Cagareli written ; Georgian ალექსანდრე ანტონის ძე ცაგარელი ; born November 27 . Jul / 9. December  1844 greg. In Kaspi , government Tbilisi ; † 12. November 1929 in Tbilisi ) was a Georgian linguist . He was a professor of linguistics at the University of Saint Petersburg and co-founder of the Tbilisi State University .

Life

After attending school at the Klassischen Gymnasium Tbilisi, Zagareli studied philosophy and history at the universities of Vienna , Munich , Tübingen and Saint Petersburg . In Tübingen he joined the Landsmannschaft Scotland student union in the winter semester of 1869/1870 . It was here that the foundation stone for the lifelong friendship with the classical philologist Ernst von Mohl was laid.

After receiving his doctorate in Moscow, Zagareli received his habilitation in Saint Petersburg in 1872 . His habilitation thesis is entitled Comparative Examination of the Morphology of the Iberian Group of Caucasian Languages . He then became a lecturer in Georgian literature at St. Petersburg University. In 1886 he became a professor at the Faculty of Oriental Languages appointed and directed the Department of Armenian and Georgian studies.

Nikolai Marr is one of his best-known students . Due to differences of opinion with Zagareli, he did not qualify for Georgian, but for Armenian. The reason for this is likely to lie in Marr's polemical anti-Zagareli essay from 1888. Marr had already put forward the hypothesis of a Georgian-Semitic linguistic relationship contained therein in the fourth semester (1886) and thus contradicted the then prevailing conviction of the isolated position of the Georgian language, to which Zagareli was also attached, but without citing scientific evidence. Against the express advice of his professors, he published his theses two years later.

Zagareli worked at the University of Saint Petersburg for over half a century. In 1922, the almost 80-year-old left Russia and took academic positions at the Tbilisi State University, which he co-founded. He also gained recognition through the translation of many important Georgian scriptures into German , English , French and Russian, among others .

He found his final resting place on the Pantheon of Tbilisi (grave no. 42).

Honors

Publications

  • The grammatical literature of the Georgian language . Tipografija Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk, Saint Petersburg 1873
  • News about monuments of Georgian literature . Tipografija Imperatorskoj Akademii Nauk, Saint Petersburg 1886
  • Documents and other historical documents of the 18th century relating to Georgia . Saint Petersburg 1891

literature

  • Georgij A. Klimov: Introduction to Caucasian Linguistics . Buske, Hamburg 1994. ISBN 3-87548-060-0
  • Franco Zizzo: The International Component of Corporate Studentism. A presentation with special consideration of the CC and its predecessor associations , in: Historica Academia Volume 39, Between open-mindedness and national narrowing . Wuerzburg 2000.
  • Bianka Pietrow-Ennker : Culture in the history of Russia. Spaces, media, identities, living environments . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36293-8 , p. 73.

Web links

Commons : Alexander Zagareli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ალექსანდრე ცაგარელი (Georgian, viewed September 15, 2011)
  2. ↑ Барамидзе А. Г. Цагарели Ал. // Краткая литературная энциклопедия / Гл. ред. А. А. Сурков. - М .: Сов. энцикл., 1962-1978. - Т. 8: Флобер - Яшпал. - 1975. - Стб. 365. (Russian)
  3. ↑ Alexander Antonowitsch Zagareli (Russian) ( Memento from July 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Erich Faul (ed.): Landsmannschaft Scottland zu Tübingen - List of all federal brothers 1849-1959 . Stuttgart 1969.
  5. ↑ Bianka Pietrow-Ennker: Culture in the history of Russia: spaces, media, identities, worlds . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-525-36293-8 , p. 73.
  6. ^ Gerhard Deeters : "The Linguistics in the Soviet Union" , in: Bolshevik Science and "Cultural Policy" , Königsberg and Berlin: Ost-Europa-Verlag, 1938, page 244.
  7. ↑ Annette Kabanov: Ol'ga Michajlovna Frejdenberg (1890-1955): A Soviet scientist between canon and freedom . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-447-04607-7 , p. 157 f.
personal data
SURNAME Zagareli, Alexander von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tsagareli, Alexandre; Zagarelli, Alexander; Tsagareli, Alexander; Zagarely, Alexander von; Zagareli, Alexsander; Cagareli, Aleksandre; Cagareli, Aleksandr Antonovic; Cagareli, Alekhsandre Antonis; Zagareli, Alexander Anton von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Georgian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaspi , Tbilisi Governorate
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1929
Place of death Tbilisi