Elguja Khintibidze 

Birthday 7, June 1937. 

Birthplace Georgia. 

Position  Director of the Centre for Kartvelian (Georgian) Studies at Tbilisi State University (TSU). Head of the Chair of Old Georgian Literature at TSU. Head of Laboratory of Georgian-Foreign Literary Research at TSU. 

Former Position  Dean of Faculty of Philology of TSU (1976-1986).  Pro-rector for scientific research of TSU (1986-1993).

Academic Background  Doctor of philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia 

Membership in Professional and Social Organizations  Société Internationale pour L'Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale - S.I.E.P.M.(Belgique).   Honorary Member of the Research Board of Advisors of the American Biographical Institute (Raleigh, N.   C., USA).

Participant of International Congresses and symposia and visiting lecturer at the Universities of:  Madrid, Basco, Tel-Aviv, Helsinki, Turku, Ottawa, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Jerusalem, Massachusetts at Amherst, Georgetown, London, Oxford, Cambridge, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Bologna, Jena, Erfurt, Porto.

Awards  International Order of  Merit - IOM (Cambridge).  Ivane Javakhishvili Prize (Tbilisi).

Main Publications 

1. Georgian-Byzantine Literary Contacts (Georg. ed. Tbilisi, 1982; Rus.ed. Tb. 1989; English ed. Amsterdam 1996).

2. Georgian Redactions of Basil the Great's Asceticon (Georg. ed. Tb. 1968).

3. Concerning the Relationship of the Georgian and Greek Versions of Barlaam and Ioasaph (English ed. Paris 1976).  

    4. World outlook Problems in Rustaveli's Poem The Man in the Panther's Skin (Georg. ed. Tb. 1975). 
5. Medieval and Renaissance Trends in Rustaveli's Poem (Georg. ed.Tb.1993). 
6. The Designations of the Georgians and Their Etymology, (Georgian and English ed. Tb. 1998) 
7.  Georgian Literatue in European Scholarship (English ed., Amsterdam 2001).

Address
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Tel. 00(995 32) 23-18-00 (Home).

    Chavchavadze Ave. I, Tbilisi, 380028, Georgia. 
Tel. 00(995 32) 29 08 33 (Office).

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    Email: khintibidze@myoffice.ge