Micheil Tsereteli

Micheil Tsereteli

Micheil Tsereteli ( Georgian მიხეილ წერეთელი ; also Michael von Tseretheli ; born December 23, 1878 in Zchrukweti , West Georgia ; † March 2, 1965 in Munich ) was a Georgian historian and diplomat.

Life

He was born the son of Prince Giorgi Tsereteli. In 1911 he completed a history degree at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate there in 1913. From 1914 to 1918 he was associate professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He became chairman of the Georgian Independence Committee in Germany.

In 1908 he was a co-founder of the Committee for the Independence of Georgia in Constantinople , which published the magazine Eri ( The Nation ) in Tbilisi . In 1914 he founded a committee of the same name in Germany. In 1918 and 1919 he was Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Georgia to Sweden and Norway . From 1919 to 1921 he worked as a professor at the newly founded Tbilisi State University . After the conquest of Tbilisi by the Red Army in February 1921 , he emigrated to Western Europe.

From 1921 to 1933 Tsereteli was a professor at the University of Brussels , from 1933 to 1945 he was a professor at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. After 1945 he lived and worked in Munich. In the 1930s and 1940s he was chairman of the Georgian National Committee based in Berlin and Paris and editor of the Paris- based scientific journal Bedi Kartlisa - Revue de Kartvelologie .

The main fields of Tsereteli's scientific work were Sumerology , the history of Georgia and the Caucasus , the history of the Ibero-Caucasian civilization, Rustawelogy, international law and sociology. He wrote over 80 scientific research papers, including about ten monographs .

Tsereteli was buried in the Georgian Carré des Communal Cemetery in Leuville-sur-Orge , France .

Fonts

• Georgia and the World War . Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1916
• Racial and cultural problems of the Caucasus . Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1916
• The rights of Georgia . in: The New Orient, Berlin 1917
• The liberation of Poland and the nationality principle with the central powers and with the Entente . Wyss, Bern 1917
• The Free Caucasus and the Conditions of Its Independence . in: The New Orient 5, 3/4 (1921)
• The new Haldic inscriptions of King Sardur of Urartu (around 750 BC) . Carl Winter, Heidelberg 1928
• Georgia's history . [Munich approx. 1957], 58 sheets - Masch.-Schr. multiply

Web links

Commons : Mikheil Tsereteli  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Micheil Zereteli in the catalog of the German National Library