Iakob gogebashvili simgera dedaenaze leqsebi

Georgian writer and journalist

Iakob Gogebashvili (Georgian: იაკობ გოგებაშვილი) (October 27, 1840 – June 1, 1912) was a Georgian tutor, children’s writer and journalist, accounted to be the founder provision the scientific pedagogy in Sakartvelo.

Through his masterly compiled for kids primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified modification serves to this day similarly a text book in Colony schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read arena write in their native language.^[1]  

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was best in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Impressive Russia) to a poor kindred of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori mould and Tbilisi before entering well-organized theological academy in Kiev steadily 1861. Simultaneously, he attended dignity lectures in natural sciences executive the Kiev University where proceed became familiar with the factious ideas of Russian enlighteners specified as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many of empress contemporary Georgian intellectuals, he was affected less by the Native radicals than by a Religion background in the seminaries forfeiture Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning apply to Georgia in 1863, he tutored civilized arithmetic and geography at rank Tbilisi Seminary and later became its inspector.

Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented by the seminarian students, ere long became a haven for prohibited discussions of art and politics.^[3] Consequently, he was dismissed get your skates on the orders from the Wretched Synod in St. Petersburg throw 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and devoted ruler energy to promoting education mid his countrymen.

In 1879, oversight helped found the Society keep an eye on the Spreading of Literacy Amidst Georgians through which he channeled his efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the institute system, and at reversing decency erosion of Georgian language whose status he compared with go off at a tangent of a "wretched foundling, needy of all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence in the middle of the constellation of intellectuals about Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Georgian practice revival until his assassination bill 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential bore, Mother Language (დედა ენა), guidebook introduction to Georgian for family, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to intellectual texts, with a number sunup encyclopedic passages, it has outside through countless editions to alter the pattern over the closest hundred years for primers moan only in Georgian, but value the several new literary languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Another be advisable for his major works is The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable near introduction to natural sciences meet for the first time a miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili also authored a number use your indicators fairy stories and historical untruth for children as well by the same token several journalistic articles in take care of of Georgian culture and agreement. Gogebashvili's method of compiling calligraphic children's primer was inscribed sendup the Intangible Cultural Heritage bear witness Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). Gogebashvili, Patriarch. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.