The Kartvelologist

The Kartvelologist” is a bilingual (Georgian and English) peer-reviewed, academic journal, covering all spheres of Kartvelological scholarship. Along with introducing scholarly novelties in Georgian Studies, it aims at popularization of essays of Georgian researchers on the international level and diffusion of foreign Kartvelological scholarship in Georgian scholarly circles.


“The Kartvelologist” issues both in printed and electronic form. In 1993-2009 it came out only in printed form (#1-15). The publisher is the “Centre for Kartvelian Studies” (TSU), financially supported by the “Fund of the Kartvelological School”. In 2011-2013 the journal is financed by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation.





Zurab Baratishvili

Doctoral student, theoretical and applied linguistics, the faculty of humanities, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University; Researcher, The Committee for the Academic Edi­tion of “The Knight in the Panther’s Skin” and the Thesaurus of the Georgian Language, Georgian National Academy of Sciences