The Kartvelian studies (Georgian: ქართველოლოგია) also referred as Kartvelology or Georgian studies is a field of humanities covering the history, languages, religion and/or culture of Georgia and the Georgian people.

In a narrower sense, the term usually refers to the research activities conducted on these problems outside Georgia.

Luminaries of Kartvelian studies

Georgian scholars

• Prince Teimuraz of Georgia (1782–1846)
• David Chubinashvili (1814–1891)
• Alexander Khakhanov (1864–1912)
• Ivane Javakhishvili (1876–1940)
• Korneli Kekelidze (1879–1962)
• Ilia Abuladze (1901–1968)
• Simon Kaukhchishvili (1895–1981)
• Giorgi Melikishvili (1918–2002)
• Irine Melikishvili (1943–2013)
• Georges Charachidzé (1930–2010)
• Merab Chukhua (born 1964)

International scholars

• Jacob Georg Christian Adler (1756-1834)^{[citation needed]}
• Marie-Félicité Brosset (1802–1880)
• Arthur Leist (1852–1927)
• John Oliver Wardrop (1864–1948)
• Marjory Wardrop (1869–1909)
• Robert Pierpont Blake (1886–1950)
• Gerhard Deeters (1892–1961)
• Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)
• William Edward David Allen (1901–1973)
• Hans Vogt (1909–1986)
• Gertrud Pätsch (1910-1994)
• Cyril Toumanoff (1913–1997)
• Gérard Garitte (1914–1992)
• David Marshall Lang (1924–1991)
• Georgi Klimov (1928–1997)
• Michel Van Esbroeck (1934–2003)
• Heinz Fähnrich (born 1941)
• Kevin Tuite (born 1954)
• Donald Rayfield
• Brian George Hewitt (born 1949)
• Stephen H. Rapp
• Stephen F. Jones
• Constantine B. Lerner
• Mine Kadiroğlu
• Luigi Magarotto
• Bernard Outtier
• Farshid Delshad (born 1972)
• Jost Gippert
• Roland Bielmeier (1943-2013)
• Michael Job
• Katharine Vivian (1917–2010)
• Hirotake Maeda
• Hayate Sotome
• Václav A. Černý

Periodicals

• Bedi Kartlisa. Revue de Kartvélologie
• Georgica
• Revue des études géorgiennes et caucasiennes

External links

• Fund for Kartvelian Studies Archived 2019-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
• Khintibidze, Elguja (1996), Georgian Literature in European Scholarship. NATO Research Fellowships 1994-1996.

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