Zurab Avalishvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Zurab Avalishvili

Georgian diplomat and historian

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1876

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 21-May-1944

Profession: diplomat, historian, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Zurab Avalishvili

  • Zurab Avalishvili (Georgian: ????? ??????????) (1876 – May 21, 1944) was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921).
  • He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner. Born in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of the Russian Empire), into the family of Prince David Avalishvili, he graduated from St.
  • Petersburg University in 1900 and took post-graduate courses at the Department of Law, University of Paris from 1900 to 1903.
  • He became a Docent at the St.
  • Petersburg University in 1904 and a Professor of Public Law at the St.
  • Petersburg Polytechnical Institute in 1907.
  • He was an official adviser to the Russian Ministry of Trade and Commerce for many years.
  • After the February Revolution in Russia, Avalishvili was named a Senator by the Provisional Government in May 1917.
  • When Georgia declared independence on May 26, 1918, Avalishvili entered Georgian diplomatic service and was appointed a Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
  • He rendered important services to his homeland as a member of her delegation to the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.
  • The Red Army invasion of Georgia forced him into exile in March 1921.
  • He lived thereafter in Germany where he worked as a Professor at the University of Munich.
  • He was one of the founding members of the Georgian Association in Germany and worked for the editorial boards of historical journals Georgica (London) and Byzantion (Brussels).
  • He died in 1944, in Germany, and was reburied to Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi, in 1994.
  • Avalishvili’s main works focuses on the history of Georgia and the Caucasus, Georgian literature (e.g., the critical studies of Shota Rustaveli), international law and Georgia’s foreign relations.
  • His The Independence of Georgia in International Politics, 1918-1921 is a detailed and well-documented first-hand account of Georgia’s relations with its neighbors, the nation’s struggle for recognition and its international ramifications in the period of 1918 to 1921.
  • Much of the works is in diary form, the author being judiciously critical of ineptitude of the Caucasian governments.

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