Iakob Gogebashvili
Iakob Gogebashvili | |
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Born | October 27, 1840 |
Died | June 1, 1912 |
Resting place | Mtatsminda Pantheon, Tbilisi |
Occupation | poet, novelist, humanist, publisher, journalist, educator |
Nationality | Georgian |
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Iakob Gogebashvili (Georgian: იაკობ გოგებაშვილი) (October 27, 1840 – June 1, 1912) was a Georgian educator, children’s writer and journalist, considered to be the founder of the scientific pedagogy in Georgia. Through his masterly compiled children's primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified form serves to this day as a text book in Georgian schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read and write in their native language.[1]
Biography
Iakob Gogebashvili was born in village
From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and devoted his energy to promoting education among his countrymen. In 1879, he helped found the
Gogebashvili’s most influential work, Mother Language (დედა ენა), an introduction to Georgian for children, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to literary texts, with a number of encyclopedic passages, it has gone through countless editions to become the pattern over the next hundred years for primers not only in Georgian, but in the several new literary languages of the
Notes
- ^ Rayfield, p. 173; Lang, p. 111.
- ^ Rayfield, p. 174.
- ^ Suny, p. 135.
- ^ Lang, p. 111.
- ^ Lang, p. 111; Rayfield, p. 174; Suny, p. 133
- ^ Rayfield, p. 173.
- ^ "არამატერიალური კულტურული მემკვიდრეობა" [Intangible Cultural Heritage] (PDF) (in Georgian). National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation of Georgia. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
- ^ "UNESCO Culture for development indicators for Georgia (Analytical and Technical Report)" (PDF). EU-Eastern Partnership Culture & Creativity Programme. October 2017. pp. 82–88. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
References
- Lang, David Marshall (1962), A Modern History of Georgia. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
- ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.
- ISBN 0-253-20915-3.
External links
- Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). Gogebashvili, Jacob. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.