Zurab Avalishvili

Zurab Avalishvili ( Georgian ზურაბ ავალიშვილი ; Russian Zurab Awalow * 1876 in Tbilisi ; † 21st May 1944 in Schwarzenfeld ) was a Georgian historian , lawyer and politician . From 1918 to 1921 he was Deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia .

Zurab Avalishvili

Life

He was born the son of Prince Dawit Avalishvili. In 1900 he graduated from the University of Saint Petersburg with a degree in history and from 1900 to 1903 did a postgraduate course at the law faculty of the Paris Sorbonne . In 1904 he became an associate professor at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1907 he moved as a professor at the Technical University in the same city, where he became dean of the Faculty of Administrative Law.

During the February Revolution of 1917 he became a member of the Russian Senate . After Georgia's independence in 1918, he became Deputy Foreign Minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia . He was the deputy head of the Georgian delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that negotiated the Treaty of Versailles . He was a co-founder of the Tbilisi State University and one of its first professors.

On February 25, 1921, Avalishvili and the Georgian government were expelled from Tbilisi by the Red Army . He resided first in Kutaisi , then in Batumi . He left Georgia on March 17, 1921 and went into exile in Germany . There he worked as a professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He co-founded the Georgian Association in Germany and wrote for the journals Georgica ( London ) and Byzantion ( Brussels ).

Avalishvili's academic work has focused on the history of Georgia and the Caucasus , Georgian literature, international law, and international relations . He wrote a fundamental historical account of the annexation of Georgia to Russia in 1801, and published a monograph on the role of the first Republic of Georgia in international relations, which is still published today. He also wrote about culture and was considered a connoisseur of the Georgian poet Schota Rustaveli .

After his death he was first buried in Germany. In 1994 his body was transferred to Georgia, where he was buried on the Didube Pantheon in Tbilisi.

Fonts

• Decentralizacja i samoupravlenie vo Francii: departamentskija sobranija ot reformy Bonaparta do našich dnej . Stasjulevič, S.-Peterburg 1905
• Prisoedinenie Gruzii k Rossii . Montvid, S.-Peterburg 1906
• The independence of Georgia in international politics 1918-1921 . Headley, London 1940
• History of Georgia , Munich 1944

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