Vakhtang Itonishvili by Levan Urushadze

From Wikinfo

This is a signed article by Dr. Levan Urushadze. It may be edited for spelling errors or typos, but not for substantive content except by its author. If you have created a user name and verified your identity, provided you have set forth your credentials on your user page, you can add comments to the botton of this article as Wikinfo:Peer review.

Vakhtang V. Itonishvili (December 19, 1958-November 29, 2000) was a noted Georgian historian, ethnographer and ethnologist.

He was born in 1958, in Tbilisi. His father, Professor Valerian Itonishvili is a famous ethnographer.

In 1980 Vakhtang Itonishvili graduated from the Faculty of History of the Tbilisi State University (TSU). In 1983-2000 he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS). In 1983 he received a PhD degree in History.

In 1985-2000 Vakhtang Itonishvili was Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University, in 1990-1991 a Visiting Professor of the Vienna University (Austria).

In 1998 he was one of founders of the International Association 'CAUCASUS: Ethnic Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics' (IACERHRG). In 1998-2000 Itonishvili was a member of the Georgian National Section of EUROSCIENCE.

In 1987-1989 Vakhtang Itonishvili was active participant of the National-liberation movement of Georgia.

Main fields of scientific activity of Vakhtang Itonishvili were: ethnocide of the Caucasian peoples, ethnology of the Caucasian peoples, history of the Caucasus and Georgia, ethnostructure of the Caucasian peoples. He was author of about 50 scientific-research works (among them about 10 monographs).

Vakhtang Itonishvili died in 2000, in Tbilisi.

Some main scientific works of Vakhtang Itonishvili

• "Aragvi Valley" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1986, 150 pp (in Georgian, Russian summary)
• "Aragvi and Aragvians" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1989, 223 pp (in Georgian, Russian summary)
• "About the history of Georgian-Ossetian Relations" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1995, 110 pp (in Georgian)
• Essayes from the history of the Caucasus" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 2002, 284 pp (in Georgian)
• "Ethnocide of Georgians".- Yearbook of IACERHRG - 2000, Tbilisi, 2001, pp. 56-60 (in English)