Sargis N. Kakabadze 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...

 historian and philologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

He was born in 1886, in a small village Kukhi (Imereti

Imereti

Imereti is a province in Georgia situated along the middle and upper reaches of the Rioni river. It consists of the following Georgian administrative-territorial units:#Kutaisi #Baghdati region#Vani region#Zestafoni region...

 region of Western Georgia). In 1910 he graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Languages of the St.Petersburg University

Saint Petersburg

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 (Russia

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). In 1911-1918 he was a teacher of History of the Georgian Gymnasium of Tbilisi

Tbilisi

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, in 1919-1967 Professor of the Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

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 (TSU), in 1921-1926 Director of the State Historical Archive of Georgia, in 1945-1961 head of the Department of the Old Acts of this Archive.

Main fields of scientific activity of Sargis Kakabadze were: history of Georgia, source studies of the history of Georgia and the Caucasus

Caucasus

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, history of Georgian literature, Rustvelology (Shota Rustaveli

Shota Rustaveli

Shota Rustaveli was a Georgian poet of the 12th century, and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. He is author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" , the Georgian national epic poem....

 was a great Georgian poet of the 12th century), etc. He was author of more than 100 scientific-research articles and many important monographs.

Sargis Kakabadze died in 1967, in Tbilisi

Tbilisi

Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form T'pilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...

.

Some of main scientific works of Sargis Kakabadze

• "Character of the feudal system in Georgia of the end of Middle Ages" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1912 (in Russian)
• "About the Georgian historians of the 11th century" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1912 (in Russian)
• "Social-economic questions of Georgia of the Middle Ages" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1927 (in Russian)
• "Vakhtang Gorgasali" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1959 (in Georgian)
• "Rustaveli and his poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin"" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1966 (in Georgian)