Mikheil Tsereteli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMikheil Tsereteli
Georgian diplomat
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Place of Birth: Tskhrukveti, Imereti, Georgia
About Mikheil Tsereteli
- Prince Mikheil "Mikhako" G.
- Tsereteli also known as Michael von Zereteli (Georgian: ?????? "??????" ????????) (December 23, 1878 – March 2, 1965) was a Georgian prince, historian, philologist, sociologist and public benefactor. He was born in 1878, in a village Tskhrukveti (Imereti region of Western Georgia).
- His father was Prince Giorgi Tsereteli.
- His brother Vasil Tsereteli (1862-1938) was a famous Georgian physician, writer and public benefactor. In 1911 Mikheil Tsereteli graduated from Heidelberg University (Germany), and received a PhD degree in History in 1913.
- From 1914 to 1918, he was Associate Professor at Berlin University and Chairman of the Committee of Independent Georgia.
- In 1916 Tsereteli was a representative of Georgia in the Union of Nations in Lausanne, and in 1918-1919 Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG) in Sweden and Norway. From 1919 to 1921, Tsereteli was a Professor of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). On February 25, 1921, Georgia was occupied by Soviet Russia.
- From March 1921, Mikheil Tsereteli was an émigré. From 1921 to 1933 Tsereteli was a Professor at the University of Brussels (Belgium), and from 1933 to 1945 a Professor at Berlin University.
- After 1945, he lived and worked in Munich. In the 1930s and 1940s, he was a Chairman of the "Georgian National Committee" (Berlin-Paris). Prince Tsereteli was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Bedi Kartlisa - Revue de Kartvelologie" (Paris).Main fields of academic activity of Prof.
- Tsereteli were: Sumerology, history of Georgia and the Caucasus, history of Ibero-Caucasian civilization, Rustvelology (Shota Rustaveli was a great Georgian Poet of the 12th century), the rights of the Nations (Peoples), sociology, etc.
- He was author of more than 80 scientific-research works (among them about 10 monographs). Mikheil Tsereteli died in 1965, in Munich.
- He is buried in Leuville-sur-Orge (France).
- In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the title and Order of National Hero of Georgia.
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