Nikoloz Janashia

Nikoloz Janashia

Nikoloz (Lasha) Janashia (Georgian: ნიკოლოზ (ლაშა) ჯანაშია) (November 18, 1931-September 7, 1982) was a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor.

He born in Tbilisi. His father was a noted Georgian historian, Academician Simon Janashia (1900-1947).

In 1954 Nikoloz Janashia graduated from the Faculty of History of the Tbilisi State University (TSU).

In 1957-1970 he was a Research Fellow (1957-1962) and Senior Research Fellow (1962-1970) of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), in 1970-1982 a Deputy Director of the Institute of Manuscripts of the GAS, in 1965-1982 Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University. In 1962 he received a PhD degree in History.

Nikoloz Janashia was a Scientific Secretary of the Historical Society of Georgia, Member of the Commission of the source studies of the history of Georgia of the Presidium of GAS.

Main fields of scientific activity of N. Janashia were: history of Georgia of the 4th-5th centuries AD, Georgian and Armenian sources of the history of Georgia. He was author of many scientific-research articles and monographs.

Janashia died in 1982, in Tbilisi.