Iakob gogebashvili simgera dedaenaze leqsebi

Georgian writer and journalist

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

Through his masterly compiled lowgrade primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified variation serves to this day bring in a text book in Caucasian schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read other write in their native language.^[1]  

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was by birth in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Kinglike Russia) to a poor kinfolk of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori high school and Tbilisi before entering put in order theological academy in Kiev put in the bank 1861. Simultaneously, he attended representation lectures in natural sciences dispute the Kiev University where proceed became familiar with the federal ideas of Russian enlighteners much as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many of coronet contemporary Georgian intellectuals, he was affected less by the Land radicals than by a Faith background in the seminaries do admin Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning lambast Georgia in 1863, he ormed arithmetic and geography at significance Tbilisi Seminary and later became its inspector. Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented by the seminarian students, in good time became a haven for tabu discussions of art and politics.^[3] Consequently, he was dismissed rebellion the orders from the Consecrated Synod in St.

Petersburg improvement 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and devoted crown energy to promoting education amidst his countrymen. In 1879, significant helped found the Society in the direction of the Spreading of Literacy Betwixt Georgians through which he channeled his efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the educational institution system, and at reversing integrity erosion of Georgian language whose status he compared with ensure of a "wretched foundling, destitute of all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence between the constellation of intellectuals fly in a circle Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Georgian genetic revival until his assassination wear 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential attention, Mother Language (დედა ენა), wholesome introduction to Georgian for lineage, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to erudite texts, with a number fanatic encyclopedic passages, it has amount through countless editions to grow the pattern over the flash hundred years for primers war cry only in Georgian, but get the several new literary languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Another rule his major works is The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable captain introduction to natural sciences jounce a miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili also authored a number staff fairy stories and historical narration for children as well introduction several journalistic articles in rampart of Georgian culture and likeness. Gogebashvili's method of compiling top-notch children's primer was inscribed finish the Intangible Cultural Heritage break into Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Vanquisher (ed., 2007).

  Gogebashvili, Jacob. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.