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Zaza Aleksidze, Professor Emeritus at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, has been awarded the Gold Medal of the University for his long and fruitful pedagogical and scientific work at TSU, as well as for his outstanding contribution to the development of Armenology in Georgia. Along with the Gold Medal of the University, Academician Zaza Aleksidze, the famous Georgian scientist, the head of the Eastern and Armenian Manuscripts Department at Korneli Kekelidze National Center of Manuscripts, was awarded the Gold Medal of the International French Renaissance Association for his special contribution to the development of culture.
The awards ceremony was held at the National Center of Manuscripts. Nana Gaprindashvili, Dean of the TSU Faculty of Humanities, Diego Colas, Ambassador of France to Georgia, and Mzago Dokhturishvili, President of the Georgian Office of the French Renaissance Association, personally handed over the honorary awards to Zaza Aleksidze’s spouse, Marina Aleksidze.
Zaza Aleksidze, historian, textologist, researcher of Georgian, Armenian and Albanian paleography and epigraphy, who has been working for years on the most important issues of Kartvelian, Armenian and Albanian studies, comprehensively researches the historical, culturological and religious aspects of the Christian Caucasus. He belongs to the group of scientists who are equally fluent in the data and research methods of various fields of humanities.
Besides the above-mentioned issues, Aleksidze also worked on several important problems -Armenian and Georgian epigraphy of the Ateni Sioni Church, the inscription on the pedestal of the Jvari Monastery in Mtskheta and the special historical and cultural significance of this monument; the Stele of Davati; Georgian and Armenian palimpsests; data from ancient Armenian sources about various issues of Georgian history, etc.
“Discovery of the century” - this is how Zaza Aleksidze assessed the discovery of the monument of Albanian writing, which opened the opportunities to the researchers to study the language and writing of the lost peoples of the Caucasus. He became the founder of Albanology as a field of science. The discovery and deciphering of the Georgian-Albanian palimpsest prompted the launch of an international multidisciplinary project to study the palimpsests stored at St. Catherine’s Monastery of Mount Sinai. The world’s best scientists got involved in the project, the results of which significantly raised our awareness of the Middle Ages.
Zaza Aleksidze is the author of 130 scientific papers and 15 books.