Kvachadze Leo

Levan (Leo) Kvachadze (b. October 3, 1908, Lakhamula, present-day Mestia Municipality – d. January 22, 2011, Tbilisi), linguist, researcher of the Georgian language and its teaching methodology, Honored Scienctist of Georgia (1983), Honored Teacher of Georgian School (1966), winner of the State Prize of Georgia (1988). He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi State University (1930). He began pedagogical work in 1931. At various times, he worked as a teacher and director in secondary schools in Mestia, Lakhamula, and Tbilisi. From 1947, he began his scientific and research work at the A. Pushkin Pedagogical Institute at the Department of the Georgian Language. At the same time, he was the head of the Department of Georgian Language and Literature at the Zugdidi Pedagogical Institute (1950–1952).

Kvachadze's works study the basic issues of Georgian grammar, mostly syntax and language teaching methodology in secondary schools. Some of his important works include: Methodology of Teaching Complex Sentences (1950), Parts of Sentences in Georgian (1954), On the Syntactic Qualification of Some Forms of  Participle and Noun (1957), Georgian Language (1961), Syntax of the Modern Georgian Language (1966), Instrumental and Adverbial Cases of the Plural Forms with “t” Suffixin New Georgian (1997), etc.

Together with A. Shanidze, he co-authored both parts of Georgian Grammar (from 1964 to the end of the 1970s), and then the Georgian Language textbook for grades 5–9.

He received the State Prize of Georgia for the book Syntax of the Modern Georgian Language.

Kvachadze was awarded the Order of Honor (1997).

 

Ts. Barbakadze