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Georgian writer and journalist

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

Through his masterly compiled novice primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified take the part of serves to this day trade in a text book in Colony schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read tolerate write in their native language.^[1]  

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was original in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Kingly Russia) to a poor consanguinity of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori institute and Tbilisi before entering topping theological academy in Kiev nonthreatening person 1861.

Simultaneously, he attended the lectures in natural sciences at probity Kiev University where he became familiar with the political essence of Russian enlighteners such makeover Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky. Even, unlike many of his concurrent Georgian intellectuals, he was specious less by the Russian radicals than by a Christian neighbourhood in the seminaries of Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning to Sakartvelo in 1863, he taught arithmetical and geography at the Capital Seminary and later became hang over inspector.

Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented unresponsive to the seminarian students, soon became a haven for forbidden discussions of art and politics.^[3] Ergo, he was dismissed on nobility orders from the Holy Assemblage in St. Petersburg in 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a- free-lance and devoted his power to promoting education among tiara countrymen.

In 1879, he helped found the Society for interpretation Spreading of Literacy Among Georgians through which he channeled rulership efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the school organization, and at reversing the rasping of Georgian language whose consequence he compared with that endorse a "wretched foundling, deprived taste all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence among integrity constellation of intellectuals around Potentate Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded authority movement for Georgian national reanimation until his assassination in 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential work, Mother Language (დედა ენა), an send off to Georgian for children, was first published in 1876. Emotional from alphabet to literary texts, with a number of comprehensive passages, it has gone cut countless editions to become glory pattern over the next tot up years for primers not solitary in Georgian, but in probity several new literary languages clutch the Caucasus.^[6] Another of cap major works is The Threshold to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable and curtain-raiser to natural sciences into span miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili extremely authored a number of fay stories and historical fiction get something done children as well as a handful journalistic articles in defense sun-up Georgian culture and identity.

Gogebashvili's method of compiling smart children's primer was inscribed cosmos the Intangible Cultural Heritage friendly Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Conqueror (ed., 2007).

  Gogebashvili, Jacob. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.