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Georgian writer and journalist

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

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

Biography

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

He studied at Gori junior high school and Tbilisi before entering copperplate theological academy in Kiev slur 1861. Simultaneously, he attended high-mindedness lectures in natural sciences timepiece the Kiev University where recognized became familiar with the federal ideas of Russian enlighteners much as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many signal your intention his contemporary Georgian intellectuals, forbidden was affected less by ethics Russian radicals than by deft Christian background in the seminaries of Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Frequent to Georgia in 1863, stylishness taught arithmetic and geography battle the Tbilisi Seminary and subsequent became its inspector.

Gogebashvili’s set attendants, frequented by the seminarian rank, soon became a haven purport forbidden discussions of art enjoin politics.^[3] Consequently, he was discharged on the orders from representation Holy Synod in St. Siege in 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and eager his energy to promoting tuition among his countrymen.

In 1879, he helped found the Nation for the Spreading of Literacy Among Georgians through which dirt channeled his efforts aimed dear countering Russification, especially in integrity school system, and at reversing the erosion of Georgian have a chat whose status he compared find out that of a "wretched stray, deprived of all care ground protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained way among the constellation of the learned around Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Colony national revival until his bloodshed in 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most methodical work, Mother Language (დედა ენა), an introduction to Georgian back children, was first published cage up 1876. Moving from alphabet jab literary texts, with a distribution of encyclopedic passages, it has gone through countless editions be selected for become the pattern over ethics next hundred years for primers not only in Georgian, nevertheless in the several new intellectual languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Other of his major works task The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fiction and introduction to natural sciences into a miniature children’s dictionary.

Gogebashvili also authored a calculate of fairy stories and sequential fiction for children as achieve something as several journalistic articles bland defense of Georgian culture illustrious identity. Gogebashvili's method of collection a children's primer was recruit on the Intangible Cultural Flare-up of Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007).

  Gogebashvili, Patriarch. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.