Gogichaishvili Philipe

Gogichaishvili Philipe (January 20, 1872, Lanchkhuti – March 29, 1950, Tbilisi) was an economist, publicist, and public figure. Doctor of Economic Sciences (1935), Honored Scientist of Georgia (1945), one of the founders and professors of Tbilisi State University (1918–1950), and one of the founders of the Georgian economic school.

Under his leadership, the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences was established at TSU on the basis of the Faculty of Philosophy. He also headed the Department of Political Economy and founded and led the Department of Statistics.

Gogichaishvili’s scientific work primarily addressed the socio-economic and socio-political issues of Georgia and other regions of the South Caucasus. His first major scholarly work was his doctoral dissertation, Craftsmanship in Georgia (Khelosnoba Sakartveloshi), which was published as a separate book in German in 1901 in Tübingen, Germany, and introduced Georgia’s economy to Europe.

Gogichaishvili also made a significant contribution to Georgian folklore studies. In 1904, he inherited a rich collection of Georgian folklore samples compiled by P. Umikashvili, a portion of which he published in 1905 with an extensive preface (Folk Poems). In 1937, he published the poetic part of this collection (Folk Literature, Vol. 1).

From 1945 to 1950, he also worked at the Institute of Economics of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

In 2008, the Georgian National Academy of Sciences established a prize in his name in the field of economics.

Literary works: რჩეული ნაწერები, პ. გუგუშვილის რედ., ტ. 1, თბ., 1974; ხელოსნობა საქართველოში, თბ., 1976; Малоземелье среди крестьян Закавказья, Тфл., 1903; Das Gewerbe in Georgien unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der primitiven Betriebsformen, Tübingen, 1901.

Literature: გ უ გ უ შ ვ ი ლ ი  პ., ფილიპე გოგიჩაიშვილი. ცხოვრება და მოღვაწეობა. ბიბლიოგრაფია, თბ., 1973; საღარეიშვილი ო., ბურჯი ქართული ეკონომიკური აზროვნების აღორძინებისა, თბ., 2003.