The Kartvelian studies (Georgian: ქართველოლოგია) also referred as Kartvelology or Georgian studies is a field of humanities covering the history, languages, religion and/or culture of Georgia and the Georgian people.
In a narrower sense, the term usually refers to the research activities conducted on these problems outside Georgia.
Luminaries of Kartvelian studies
Georgian scholars
- Prince Teimuraz of Georgia (1782–1846)
- David Chubinashvili (1814–1891)
- Alexander Khakhanov (1864–1912)
- Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940)
- Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962)
- Ilia Abuladze (1901–1968)
- Simon Kaukhchishvili (1895–1981)
- Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002)
- Irine Melikishvili (1943–2013)
- Georges Charachidzé (1930–2010)
- Merab Chukhua (born 1964)
International scholars
- Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834)
- Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802–1880)
- Arthur Leist (1852–1927)
- John Oliver Wardrop (1864–1948)
- Marjory Wardrop (1869–1909)
- Robert Pierpont Blake (1886–1950)
- Gerhard Deeters (1892–1961)
- Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)
- William Edward David Allen (1901–1973)
- Hans Vogt (1909–1986)
- Gertrud Pätsch (1910-1994)
- Cyril Toumanoff (1913–1997)
- Gérard Garitte (1914–1992)
- David Marshall Lang (1924–1991)
- Georgi Klimov (1928–1997)
- Michel Van Esbroeck (1934–2003)
- Heinz Fähnrich (born 1941)
- Kevin Tuite (born 1954)
- Donald Rayfield
- Brian George Hewitt (born 1949)
- Stephen H. Rapp
- Stephen F. Jones
- Constantine B. Lerner
- Mine Kadiroğlu
- Luigi Magarotto
- Bernard Outtier
- Farshid Delshad (born 1972)
- Jost Gippert
- Roland Bielmeier (1943-2013)
- Michael Job
- Katharine Vivian (1917–2010)
- Hirotake Maeda
- Hayate Sotome
- Václav A. Černý
Periodicals
External links
- Fund for Kartvelian Studies Archived 2019-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Khintibidze, Elguja (1996), Georgian Literature in European Scholarship. NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996.
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