OFFICE

Elguja KHINTIBIDZE

Birthday: 7, June 1937

Birthplace: Georgia

Position: President of the Fund for Kartvelian Studies. Full Professor of TSU, Head of the Institute of Georgian Literature at Tbilisi State University.

Former Position: Dean of the Faculty of Philology of TSU (1976-1986); Pro-rector for scientific research of TSU (1986-1993).

Academic Background: Doctor of Philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia

Membership in Professional and Social Organizations: Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale – S.I.E.P.M. (Belgique).

Honorary Member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute (USA).

Honours Participant of International Congresses and Symposia and deliverer of lectures at the Universities of: Madrid, Basco, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Helsinki, Turku, Ottawa, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Berlin, Jena, Erfurt, Massachusetts at Amherst, Georgetown, Western Michigan, Columbia, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Rome, Pisa, Ravenna, Venice, Palermo.

Awards: International Order of Merit – IOM (Cambridge), Ivane Javakhishvili Prize (Tbilisi), Georgia’s Order of Merit (Tbilisi)

Main Publications: Author of over 200 scholarly studies (more than 40 published in Europe, outside of Georgia) of which the principal monographs are:

1. Georgian-Byzantine Literary Contacts (Georgian ed.-s Tbilisi 1970, 1982; Rus. ed. Tb. 1989; English ed. Amsterdam 1996).
2. Georgian Recensions of Basil the Great’s Asceticon (Georgian ed. Tb. 1968).
3. Concerning the Relationship of the Georgian and Greek Versions of Barlaam and Ioasaph (English ed. Paris 1976).
4. World Outlook Problems in Rustaveli’s Poem The Man in the Panther’s Skin (Georg. ed. Tbilisi 1975)
5. Georgian Literary School on Mt. Athos (Rus. ed. Tb. 1982)
6. Medieval and Renaissance Trends in Rustaveli’s Poem (Georgian ed. Tbilisi 1993).
7. The Designations of the Georgians and their Etymology (Georgian and English ed. Tbilisi 1998).
8. Georgian Literature in European Scholarship. Edited by Elguja Khintibidze (English ed., Amsterdam 2001; Georgian ed. Tbilisi 2003).
9. Love of The Man in the Panther’s Skin (Georgian ed. Tbilisi 2005)
10. The Man in Panther-skin in England in the Age of Shakespeare (Georgian and English ed. Tbilisi 2008)
11. The World View of Rustaveli’s The Man in the Panther’s Skin (Georg. ed. Tbilisi 2009).

Address: TSU, 13, Chavchavadze Ave., 0179, Tbilisi, Georgia,
Tel.: (995 32) 290833
Fax: (995 32) 252501
E-mail: khintibidze@yahoo.com