Jobadze Vakhtang

Jobadze Vakhtang (1917–2007), Historian of Georgian art, Professor of California University, Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1966), who lived and worked in the USA. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1940 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi State University. During WW II he was taken prisoner by Germans. After the war he stayed in Germany, where he studied at the Universities of Guttingen and Freiburg. In 1950s he moved to the USA, where he worked at the Universities of Utah and California. Basically, V. Jobadze’s research covered Caucasian, namely, medieval Georgian architecture. He organized and participated in a number of archeological excavations. Jobadze studied the history of activity Georgian nuns in the surroundings of Antiochia. He did a good job of cleaning and thorough research of Old Truth Georgian Monastery on Black Mountain. He also identified and studied Galia Monastery on Cyprus.

Among the most important works of V. Jobadze stands out Early Medieval Georgian Monasteries In Historic Tao, Klarjeti and Shavsheti (results of the expeditions of 1992, 1967-87), which was published in Georgian language as well (Tbilisi, 2006).

Vakhtang Jobadze died in the USA.