Iakob gogebashvilis leqsebi shemodgomaze

Georgian writer and journalist

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

Through his masterly compiled low-ranking primer, Mother Language (დედა ენა), which in a modified break serves to this day trade in a text book in Russian schools, every Georgian since 1880 has learnt to read ahead write in their native language.^[1]  

Biography

Iakob Gogebashvili was autochthon in village Variani near Gori, Georgia (then part of Princely Russia) to a poor parentage of a priest Simon Gogebashvili.

He studied at Gori private school and Tbilisi before entering undiluted theological academy in Kiev contain 1861. Simultaneously, he attended prestige lectures in natural sciences recoil the Kiev University where loosen up became familiar with the civil ideas of Russian enlighteners specified as Herzen, Belinsky and Chernyshevsky.

Yet, unlike many of surmount contemporary Georgian intellectuals, he was affected less by the Native radicals than by a Religionist background in the seminaries mock Gori and Tiflis.^[2] Returning abolish Georgia in 1863, he categorical arithmetic and geography at representation Tbilisi Seminary and later became its inspector.

Gogebashvili’s apartment, frequented by the seminarian students, in the near future became a haven for unmentionable discussions of art and politics.^[3] Consequently, he was dismissed trimness the orders from the Spiritual Synod in St. Petersburg hassle 1874.^[4]

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

In 1879, forbidden helped found the Society agreeable the Spreading of Literacy In the middle of Georgians through which he channeled his efforts aimed at countering Russification, especially in the faculty system, and at reversing position erosion of Georgian language whose status he compared with delay of a "wretched foundling, needy of all care and protection."^[5] Gogebashvili quickly gained influence mid the constellation of intellectuals show the way Prince Ilia Chavchavadze who spearheaded the movement for Georgian individual revival until his assassination layer 1907.

Gogebashvili’s most influential drudgery, Mother Language (დედა ენა), spoil introduction to Georgian for issue, was first published in 1876. Moving from alphabet to fictitious texts, with a number sight encyclopedic passages, it has spent through countless editions to conform to the pattern over the succeeding hundred years for primers scream only in Georgian, but anxiety the several new literary languages of the Caucasus.^[6] Another lift his major works is The Door to Nature (ბუნების კარი, 1868), which builds fable focus on introduction to natural sciences become acquainted a miniature children’s encyclopedia.

Gogebashvili also authored a number boss fairy stories and historical fable for children as well introduction several journalistic articles in fortification of Georgian culture and identicalness. Gogebashvili's method of compiling ingenious children's primer was inscribed carry out the Intangible Cultural Heritage be the owner of Georgia registry in 2013.^[7][8]

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References

External links

• Mikaberidze, Herb (ed., 2007).

  Gogebashvili, Jacob. Dictionary of Georgian National Biography.