Konstantine Tsereteli
Konstantine Grigolis dse Tsereteli ( Georgian კონსტანტინე გრიგოლის ძე წერეთელი ; Russian Константин Григорьевич Церетели ; born February 4, 1921 in Tbilisi ; † February 27, 2004 ) was a Georgian Semitist .
Tsereteli came from a family of teachers. After graduating from school in 1937, he enrolled in the philological faculty of Tbilisi State University , where he studied Caucasian and Oriental languages. Semitic languages became a focus of his studies. In 1945 he took up a position at the Department of Middle Eastern Languages at the Georgian Academy of Sciences . He finished his aspirantur in 1946 as a candidate for science and received his doctorate in 1956 . In 1959 he was appointed professor. Since the establishment of the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Academy of Sciences in 1960, Tsereteli has headed the Department of Semitic Studies . In 1991, on his initiative, a professorship for Hebrew - Aramaic philology was established, which he held for the first time.
Tsereteli had been a corresponding member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences since 1974 and his full member in 1988. In 1993 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the Academy. He was also a member of numerous scientific societies such as the German Oriental Society .
Zereteli's scientific achievement is based on v. a. on the study of Neo-Aramaic dialects. In addition to a grammar of the Neo-Assyrian language , he also published a grammar of Syrian, a comprehensive presentation of the Aramaic language (Italian translation Grammatica generale dell'aramaico Turin 1995) and a manual of Biblical Hebrew. There are also publications on the Aramaic inscriptions of Georgia. Although Zereteli's major works have been translated into modern Western languages, numerous publications have largely gone unnoticed in the Western world because they appeared in Russian or Georgian .
literature
- Tamas Gamqrelidse , Guram Chikovani: Konstantin Tsereteli (1921-2004). In: Oriens Christianus 89 (2005), pp. 221-224.
Works (selection)
- Grammar of the Modern Assyrian Language (New Eastern Aramaic) by Peter Nagel]. Leipzig: Verlag Enzyklopädie 1978.
- Grammatica generale dell'aramaico. [Ed. italiana a cura di Sergio Noja Noseda]. Torino: Zamorani 1995. ISBN 88-7158-036-2
Web links
- Literature by and about Konstantine Tsereteli in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsereteli, Constantine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tsereteli, Constantine; წერეთელი, კონსტანტინე (Georgian); Церетели, Константин Григорьевич (Russian); Tsereteli, Konstantin Grigoryevich (Russian, transcribed) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian Semitist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tbilisi , Georgia |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2004 |