Baramidze Aleksandre
Aleksandre Baramidze (b. April 9, 1902, Junjuati, present-day Lanchkhuti Municipality – d. December 30, 1994, Tbilisi) was a literary critic, member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1960), Doctor of Philology (1936), professor (1936), Honored Worker of Georgian Science (1946).
He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Tbilisi State University (TSU) (1925). He was the dean of the Faculty of Philology of TSU (1944–1945), vice-rector (1945–1949), academician-secretary of the Department of Social Science of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1952–1955), head of the Department of History of Ancient Georgian Literature of TSU (1962–1970), director of the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Georgian Literature (1966-1985). In 1968-1989, he was the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Matsne” (language and literature series) of the Georgian Academy of Sciences; He was the editor-in-chief (1973) and head (1992) of the commission for establishing the academic text of The Knight in the Panther's Skin. He gave lectures at TSU, Kutaisi, Gori and Tbilisi pedagogical institutes.
Baramidze began his scientific work in 1925, he made an important contribution to the modern Georgian philology, in particular, to the development of literary studies. The main area of his study was ancient Georgian literature (5th-18th centuries), particularly Georgian secular literature of the 11th-18th centuries. Baramidze and Korneli Kekelidze laid the foundation for the unified science course of the history of ancient Georgian literature (1954-1969). He dedicated important studies to the works of Shota Rustaveli, Chakhrukhadze, Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, D. Guramishvili, Besiki and others. He made a great contribution to the study of cultural-literary relations of Georgia with other peoples. In this regard, his research on Georgian-European, Georgian-Russian, Georgian-Azerbaijani, Georgian-Armenian relations are well-known; The research of issues of Georgian-Persian literary relations is especially noteworthy. He has fundamental studies on the Georgian versions of Shahnameh, Visramiani and Kalila and Demna. He was one of the first to clarify the issue of the originality of Amiran-Darejaniani, the literary sources of Rusudaniani, the peculiarities of the Georgian editions of Kalila and Demna, which are connected with the names of Vakhtang VI and Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani.
Baramidze dedicated many studies to Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
He is buried at the Didube Pantheon.
Literary work: ნარკვევები ქართული ლიტერატურის ისტორიიდან, ტ. 1–9, თბ., 1945–93; ახლო წარსულიდან (მოგონებანი), ტ. 1–2, თბ., 1987–93.
Literature: ლიტერატურული ძიებანი (ეძღვნება ალ. ბარამიძის დაბადების 80 წლისთავს), თბ., 1983; ალექსანდრე ბარამიძე. ბიობიბლიოგრაფია, თბ., 1988.
S. Tsaishvili
G. Sharadze
