Giorgi Chubinashvili was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 art historian.

Born in St. Petersburg, he studied psychology

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 at the universities of Leipzig

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 and Halle

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 (1907-12), and Georgian-Armenian

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-Persian

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 philology at the Petrograd University (1916-17). Returning to Georgia, he served as a professor at the Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

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 (1918-31, 1937-48). He was one of the founding fathers and the first rector of Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

Tbilisi State Academy of Arts

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 (former Fine Arts (1922-28). From 1941 until his death, he directed the Institute of the History of Georgian Arts at the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Georgian Academy of Sciences

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(now the National Centre for Georgian Art History and Heritage Preservation) which has been named after him. His works are chiefly focused on medieval Georgian and Armenian architecture, as well as on wall painting and sculpture.