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Akaki Chanturia

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Chanturia returned briefly to Georgia in 1912, where he collected a large amount of geological and paleontological material in Samegrelo. He used this material to complete his thesis,
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Chanturia returned to Georgia permanently in 1920, and settled in Senaki with his wife, an Englishwoman named Kate Walter Ball, whom he taught
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authorities. In 1940, he was dismissed from the museum he had created. He died in Zugdidi on May 11, 1949.
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factory, where he learned English and saved his pay to finance a trip to England.
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Chanturia moved to London in 1904, where he worked as a private teacher of
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Born in 1881, Chanturia attended a religious school in
60: 214: 37:, 1881 – 11 May 1949) was a Georgian scientist, 32: 189:From 1937, Chanturia was persecuted by the 238:Academic staff of Tbilisi State University 178:This museum opened on 1 May 1921 in the 15: 215: 233:Archaeologists from Georgia (country) 154: 61:Early life and education in England 13: 243:People from Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti 14: 259: 171:to work at the newly established 1: 196: 75:Tbilisi Theological Seminary 73:. He could have entered the 7: 248:20th-century archaeologists 10: 264: 33: 173:Tbilisi State University 167:. He often travelled to 208:Biography in Mingrelian 143:, where he received a 51:Dadiani Palaces Museum 21: 203:Biography in Georgian 19: 149:Royal College of Art 145:Bachelor of Science 49:to established the 137:Geology of Georgia 96:. He also studied 69:, a small town in 22: 155:Return to Georgia 255: 36: 35: 263: 262: 258: 257: 256: 254: 253: 252: 213: 212: 199: 157: 81:to work at the 63: 25:Akaki Chanturia 20:Akaki Chanturia 12: 11: 5: 261: 251: 250: 245: 240: 235: 230: 225: 211: 210: 205: 198: 195: 180:Dadiani Palace 156: 153: 141:King's College 130:British Museum 62: 59: 34:აკაკი ჭანტურია 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 260: 249: 246: 244: 241: 239: 236: 234: 231: 229: 226: 224: 221: 220: 218: 209: 206: 204: 201: 200: 194: 192: 187: 185: 181: 176: 174: 170: 166: 162: 152: 150: 147:, and at the 146: 142: 138: 133: 131: 127: 123: 119: 115: 111: 107: 103: 99: 95: 91: 86: 84: 80: 76: 72: 68: 58: 56: 52: 48: 44: 40: 39:archaeologist 30: 26: 18: 188: 177: 158: 136: 134: 87: 64: 43:ethnographer 24: 23: 228:1949 deaths 223:1881 births 110:ethnography 106:cartography 98:archaeology 217:Categories 197:References 165:Mingrelian 83:Rothschild 118:philology 114:museology 71:Samegrelo 47:Samegrelo 161:Georgian 126:folklore 29:Georgian 184:Zugdidi 169:Tbilisi 102:history 94:geology 90:Russian 55:Zugdidi 191:Soviet 79:Batumi 67:Senaki 31:: 163:and 124:and 41:and 182:in 122:art 53:in 219:: 151:. 132:. 120:, 116:, 112:, 108:, 104:, 100:, 57:. 27:(

Index


Georgian
archaeologist
ethnographer
Samegrelo
Dadiani Palaces Museum
Zugdidi
Senaki
Samegrelo
Tbilisi Theological Seminary
Batumi
Rothschild
Russian
geology
archaeology
history
cartography
ethnography
museology
philology
art
folklore
British Museum
King's College
Bachelor of Science
Royal College of Art
Georgian
Mingrelian
Tbilisi
Tbilisi State University

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