Alexander Javakhishvili | |
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Born | Alexander Nikolayevich Javakhishvili August 17, 1875 |
Died | January 22, 1973 | (aged 97)
Nationality | Georgia |
Citizenship | Soviet |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Geography, anthropology |
Alexander Nikolayevich Javakhishvili (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ნიკოლოზის ძე ჯავახიშვილი;) born 17 August 1875, in Gori, Georgia – died January 22, 1973, Tbilisi, Georgia) was a Soviet and Georgian geographer and anthropologist.[1]
Professor A. N. Javakhishvili was one of the oldest geographers and anthropologists in the Soviet Union. He was the founder of Soviet Georgian geography which, under him, developed into a school. His qualifications and awards include Doctor of Sciences (1937), recognition as an Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1944), a Merited Scientist, an honorary member of the USSR Geographic Society, and winner of a State Prize of the Georgian SSR.[2]