Kalistrat Salia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Kalistrat Salia

Georgian historian

Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1901

Place of Birth: Tsalenjikha, Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti, Georgia

Date of Death: 25-Jul-1986

Profession: historian, linguist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Kalistrat Salia

  • Kalistrate Salia (Georgian: ?????????? ?????) (1901–1986) was a Georgian Ă©migrĂ© historian and philologist active in France. Salia was born on July 18, 1901, in Mingrelia, western Georgia.
  • He studied at Zugdidi and Khashuri before enrolling into the University of Tbilisi in 1920.
  • After the Soviet takeover of Georgia in 1921, he went to Germany where he studied at the Institute of German Language, University of Berlin.
  • He moved to France in 1924 and graduated from the University of Paris in 1927.
  • In 1948, together with his wife Nino Salia, he founded and edited the journal Bedi Kartlisa dedicated to the Kartvelian studies.
  • He published a series of scholarly works on the history and literature of Georgia and wrote Georgia-related entries for foreign encyclopedias.
  • His 1980 work Histoire de la nation gĂ©orgienne (translated into English as History of the Georgian Nation in 1983) was awarded the prize of the French Academy of Sciences.

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