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Simon Janashia

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Georgian historian

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According to Wikipedia, Simon Janashia was a Georgian historian and public figure. He was a professor of history and one of the founding members of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Janashia was born in 1900, in Makvaneti in the southwestern Georgian province of Guria. His father, Nikoloz Janashia , was an educator and ethnographer, born in Abkhazia. In 1922, Simon Janashia graduated from the Tbilisi State University. From 1924 to 1947, he served as a lecturer , Associate Professor and Professor there. In 1941, he was one of the founders of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , and from 1941 to 1947, he was Vice-President of the Academy and Director of the Institute of History of the GAS. In 1943, Janashia was elected as a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union . In the 1940s, he organized archaeological excavations in Mtskheta and Armazi in eastern Georgia.

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