Pavle Ingorokva by Levan Urushadze
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Pavle Ingorokva (1893-1990) was outstanding Georgian historian, philologist and public benefactor.
He was born in 1893, in Poti (Samegrelo region of Western Georgia).
In 1915 Ingorokva graduated from the St.Petersburg University (Russia). In 1917 he was one of the founders of the Union of Georgian Writers, in 1923-1925 Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian scientific and literary Journal 'Kavkasioni' ("The Caucasus").
In 1929-1940 Pavle Ingorokva was a Head of the Department of Manuscripts of the State Museum of Georgia, in 1941-1950 Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). In 1958 he was one of the founders of the Institute of Manuscripts of the GAS. He was also a member of the Commission on Study of The Knight in the Panther's Skin of GAS.
Main fields of the scientific activity of Pavle Ingorokva were: history of the Georgian literature, history of Georgia, source studies of the history of Georgia, Rustvelology, history of Georgian script, etc.
Pavle Ingorokva died in 1990, in Tbilisi.
Some main works of Pavle Ingorokva
- "Rustveliana" (a monograph about Shota Rustaveli), Tbilisi, 1926, 200 pp. (in Georgian)
- "The Georgian inscriptions of Antique".- Bulletin of the Institute of Language, History and Material Culture (ENIMK), vol. X, Tbilisi, 1941, pp. 411-427 (in Georgian)
- "The old Georgian chronicle "Moktsevai Kartlisai" and the List of the Kings of Iberia" (a monograph).- Bulletin of the State Museum of Georgia, vol. XI-B, Tbilisi, 1942, pp. 259-320 (in Georgian)
- "Giorgi Merchule - Georgian writer of the 10th century" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1954, 1000 pp. (in Georgian)
- "Ilia Chavchavadze" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1951, 200 pp. (in Georgian)
