Simon Janashia
Simon Janashia (
Georgian Academy of Sciences
.
Janashia was born in 1900, in
Russian Academy of Science). In the 1940s, he organized archaeological excavations in Mtskheta and Armazi
in eastern Georgia.
Janashia's main fields of his research were the
Caucasian Iberia, the history of Christianity in Georgia
, and source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus. He was an author of more than 100 scholarly works, including about 10 monographs. A full collection of Janashia's works was published in four volumes in Tbilisi between 1949 and 1968. Simon Janashia died in Tbilisi in 1947.
Literature
- Simon Janashia, Tbilisi, 1948 (in Georgian)
- Shota Meskhia Tbilisi, 1960 (in Georgian)
- Simon Janashia (1900-1947). Bibliography, Tbilisi, 1976 (in Georgian, English and Russian)
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