Titus of Margwelashvili
Titus von Margwelaschwili ( Georgian ტიტე მარგველაშვილი, Tite Margwelaschwili , * 1891 , † 1946 ) was a Georgian philosopher and journalist . He was chairman of the Georgian emigre organization in Berlin .
Life
He came from a family of Georgian noblemen, studied at the University of Leipzig and received his doctorate from the University of Halle-Wittenberg . His career in Georgia was interrupted in 1921 by the Soviet invasion of the Democratic Republic of Georgia .
As a staunch opponent of the Bolsheviks , he emigrated to Germany and became chairman of the Georgian emigrant organization in Berlin. He taught philosophy and oriental studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and worked for the émigré newspaper The Caucasus . In autumn 1944 he and his son Giwi fled from the advancing Red Army, first to Italy , then to Salzburg , where he was elected chairman of the Georgian emigrants in Germany. Then he returned to Berlin.
After the end of the Second World War he lived in Berlin-Wilmersdorf in the British sector . In December 1945 he was lured to East Berlin by the Soviet secret service NKVD . The Georgian orientalist Schalwa Nuzubidze, a former fellow student, served as a decoy . Von Margwelaschwili was arrested together with his son Giwi during a visit, locked in a prison, questioned, tortured, finally deported to Tbilisi and shot there in August 1946 as an alleged traitor. After 18 months in prison in the Soviet special camp No. 7 Sachsenhausen, the son was released to Georgia.
Von Margwelaschwili was married until 1931 and had two children.
Works
- Titus of Margwelaschwili: Colchis, Iberia and Albania around the turn of the 1st century BC With special consideration of Strabo . Phil. Diss., Halle 1914
- Tite Margvelashvili: The man in panther skin . In: Georgica . London 1936
Web links
- Literature by and about Titus von Margwelaschwili in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Margwelaschwili, Titus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Georgian philosopher and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1891 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1946 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |