Koniashvili Ivane

Ivane Koniashvili (b. October 9, 1889, Tbilisi – d. 1938, Tbilisi), balneologist and physiotherapist, one of the founders of scientific balneology in Georgia; professor (1935). In 1913, he graduated from the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy. In 1924-1925 and 1929–1930, Koniashvili studied balneology and health care at the resorts of Germany, Italy, France and Czechoslovakia. In 1926-1930, he was the head of the Department of Physiotherapy and Balneology at Tbilisi State University, in 1930-1936 – the head of the same department at the Tbilisi State Medical University, and at the same time (1928–1938), the director of the Tbilisi Scientific Research Institute of Balneology and Physiotherapy. In 1935-1938, he also headed the Department of Balneology and Physiotherapy at the Tbilisi Institute of Medical Training.

Koniashvili was the first to introduce biochemical methods of balneological research. He studied diabetes mellitus, the influence of Borjomi water on the oxidation-reduction processes of the body, etc. He was the organizer and first chairman of the Georgian Antirheumatic Committee.

Koniashvili was a victim of Soviet repressions.

 

Literary work: Реакция крови на курортные факторы Кобулети при туберкулëзе лëгких и бронхиальной астме, კრ.: Курорты АССР Аджарии, Тб., 1936 (თანაავტ. Л. К. Кутателадзе).