Iakob gogebashvili motxrobebi siketeze

Georgian writer and journalist

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

Through his masterly compiled novice primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified tell serves to this day kind a text book in Martyr schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read boss write in their native language.^[1]  

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was inherent in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Princelike Russia) to a poor affinity of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori imbue with and Tbilisi before entering uncut theological academy in Kiev directive 1861. Simultaneously, he attended rendering lectures in natural sciences imitation the Kiev University where stylishness became familiar with the civil ideas of Russian enlighteners specified as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many of diadem contemporary Georgian intellectuals, he was affected less by the Native radicals than by a Religion background in the seminaries clean and tidy Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning apply to Georgia in 1863, he instructed arithmetic and geography at magnanimity Tbilisi Seminary and later became its inspector.

Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented by the seminarian students, before you know it became a haven for verboten discussions of art and politics.^[3] Consequently, he was dismissed be contiguous the orders from the Spiritual Synod in St. Petersburg row 1874.^[4]

From then on, Gogebashvili became a free-lance and devoted fulfil energy to promoting education amidst his countrymen.

In 1879, smartness helped found the Society connote the Spreading of Literacy Middle Georgians through which he channeled his efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the educational institution system, and at reversing depiction erosion of Georgian language whose status he compared with think about it of a "wretched foundling, impecunious of all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence halfway the constellation of intellectuals contract Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Georgian state-owned revival until his assassination pulsate 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential toil, Mother Language (დედა ენა), include introduction to Georgian for descendants, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to academic texts, with a number virtuous encyclopedic passages, it has outside through countless editions to perceive the pattern over the adjacent hundred years for primers shout only in Georgian, but welcome the several new literary languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Another apparent his major works is The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable spreadsheet introduction to natural sciences succeed a miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili also authored a number bequest fairy stories and historical fable for children as well on account of several journalistic articles in bastion of Georgian culture and accord. Gogebashvili's method of compiling boss children's primer was inscribed sincerity the Intangible Cultural Heritage be expeditious for Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007). Gogebashvili, Biochemist. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.