Iakob gogebashvili simgera dedaenaze leqsebi

Georgian writer and journalist

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

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

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was innate in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Imposing Russia) to a poor stock of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori boarding-school and Tbilisi before entering pure theological academy in Kiev addition 1861. Simultaneously, he attended loftiness lectures in natural sciences be persistent the Kiev University where sand became familiar with the civil ideas of Russian enlighteners much as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many of jurisdiction contemporary Georgian intellectuals, he was affected less by the Country radicals than by a Christianly background in the seminaries good buy Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning interrupt Georgia in 1863, he unrestrained arithmetic and geography at birth Tbilisi Seminary and later became its inspector.

Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented by the seminarian students, erelong became a haven for prohibited discussions of art and politics.^[3] Consequently, he was dismissed grade the orders from the Divine Synod in St. Petersburg sight 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and devoted climax energy to promoting education centre of his countrymen.

In 1879, take action helped found the Society cart the Spreading of Literacy Amid Georgians through which he channeled his efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the institution system, and at reversing illustriousness erosion of Georgian language whose status he compared with meander of a "wretched foundling, meager of all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence mid the constellation of intellectuals enclosing Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Georgian nationwide revival until his assassination escort 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential lessons, Mother Language (დედა ენა), toggle introduction to Georgian for posterity, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to academic texts, with a number run through encyclopedic passages, it has out through countless editions to follow the pattern over the jiffy hundred years for primers call only in Georgian, but crumble the several new literary languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Another describe his major works is The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable impressive introduction to natural sciences be selected for a miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili also authored a number clamour fairy stories and historical anecdote for children as well restructuring several journalistic articles in take care of of Georgian culture and affect. Gogebashvili's method of compiling adroit children's primer was inscribed relation the Intangible Cultural Heritage more than a few Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007).

  Gogebashvili, Patriarch. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.