38 Historians from Georgia (country)

Giuli Givievna Alasania is a Georgian historian and public figure. She graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (1969) and in 1973 received a Ph.D. degree in History. In 1987 she received a degree of a Doctor of Historical Sciences.

St. Ambrosius was a Georgian religious figure and scholar who served as the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia from 1921 to 1927. Best known for his opposition to the Soviet regime, he was canonized in 1995 by the Georgian Orthodox Church as Saint Ambrosius the Confessor.

Zurab Avalishvili was a Georgian historian, jurist and diplomat in the service of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921). He was also known as Zurab Davidovich Avalov in a Russian manner.

Bagrat was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the last years of the Georgian monarchy, after whose abolition by the Russian Empire in 1801 he entered the imperial civil service. He was known in Russia as the tsarevich Bagrat Georgievich Gruzinsky. He is the author of works in the history of Georgia, veterinary medicine and economics.

Teimuraz Bagrationi otherwise known as Tsarevich Teimuraz Georgievich was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili) and scholar primarily known as an author of the first critical history in Georgian as well as for his work to popularize interest in the history and culture of Georgia and preserve its treasures.

Dimitri Bakradze was a Georgian scholar who authored several influential works in the history, archaeology and ethnography of Georgia and the Caucasus.

Mikhail Petrovich Barataev was a Russian bureaucrat of Georgian origin and an amateur numismatist, the first to have studied the coinage of Georgia.

Giorgi Chubinashvili was a Georgian art historian.

David Bagrationi, also known as David the Regent, was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili), writer and scholar, was a regent of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti, eastern Georgia, from December 28, 1800 to January 18, 1801.

Grigory Avetovich Dzhanshiyev was Russian lawyer, publicist and historian of Armenian descent. A Moscow University alumnus, Dzhanshiyev authored 25 books, the best-known of which, On the Times of the Great Reform, was re-issued several times in his lifetime and is considered one of the best treatises on Alexander II's reforms in law and jurisdiction. Dzhanshiyev was also one of the authors of the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.

Ioseb Grishashvili was a pen name of Ioseb Mamulishvili was a noted poet and historian from Georgia. A history museum in Tbilisi, his birth- and death place is named for him.

Pavle Ingorokva was a Georgian historian, philologist, and public benefactor.

Platon Ioseliani was a Georgian historian and civil servant in the Imperial Russian service.

Simon Janashia was a Georgian historian and public figure. He was a professor of history and one of the founding members of the Georgian Academy of Sciences.

Ivane Javakhishvili was a Georgian historian and a linguist whose voluminous works heavily influenced the modern scholarship of the history and culture of Georgia. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Tbilisi State University (1918) and its rector from 1919 to 1926.

Sargis N. Kakabadze was a Georgian historian and philologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.

The Karbelashvili brothers – Pilimon, Andria, Petre, Polievktos, and Vasil – were five brothers from Georgia active in the preservation of Georgian musical and religious traditions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For their efforts they were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2011.

Aleksandr Solomonovich Khakhanov born Aleksandre Khakhanashvili was a Georgian-Russian historian, archaeologist, and one of the most acclaimed scholars of Georgian literature.

Full Professor Henri Kuprashvili is a Georgian Doctor of Political Sciences, First Class State Councillor who is most notable for breaking a Guinness record for swimming the Dardanelles, with his hands and feet bound in a traditional Georgian style of swimming, also known as Colchian. Kuprashvili has been awarded the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali and George Byron Golden Medal.

St. Kyrion II was a Georgian religious figure and historian who served as the first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia after the restoration of independence (autocephaly) of the Georgian Orthodox Church from the Russian Orthodox Church in 1917 until his assassination in 1918. He was canonized by the Georgian Holy Synod in 2002.

Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr was a Georgia-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language, now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.

Roin Metreveli is a Georgian Academician and historian. He was the first elected rector of the Tbilisi State University, after Petre Melikishvili and Ivane Javakhishvili. He was a major editor of the Georgian Encyclopedia. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications and books about Georgian history and Caucasiology. For several years, he was member of the Georgian Parliament. He was Chairman of the Board of Rectors of all Georgian Universities.

David Levan Muskhelishvili in Tbilisi, Georgia. A member of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.

Zurab Papaskiri is a Georgian Historian and public figure, academician of the Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences (1997), Doctor of Historical sciences (1991), Professor (1994), owner of the State Prize of Giorgi Shervashidze (1998), owner of Order of Honour (2013).

Saint Grigol Peradze, was a prominent Georgian ecclesiastic figure, philologist, theologian, historian, and professor of patristics in the interwar period.

Mikhail Pavlovich Sabinin was a Russo-Georgian monk, historian of the Georgian Orthodox Church and icon painter.

Bagrat Uasyl-ipa Shinkuba was an Abkhaz writer, poet, historian, linguist and politician. He studied history and languages of Abkhaz, Adyghe and Ubykh people. His novel The Last of the Departed is dedicated to the tragic destiny of Ubykh nation, which became extinct along a hundred of years.

Alexander Semyonovich "Alyosha" Svanidze was a Georgian Old Bolshevik and historian. He was a personal friend of Joseph Stalin and a brother of Stalin’s first wife Kato. Nevertheless, Stalin had him arrested during a purge in 1937. He was shot in prison in 1941.

Ekvtime Takaishvili was a Georgian historian, archaeologist and public benefactor.

Michel Tamarati, born Mikhail Tamarashvili, was a Georgian Roman Catholic priest and historian, known for his oft-cited French-language history of the Georgian Christianity L'Eglise géorgienne des origines jusqu' à nos jours published in Rome in 1910. He died while trying to rescue a drowning man in stormy sea near Santa Marinella, Italy.

Giorgi (George) V. Tsereteli FRAS was a Georgian scientist and public benefactor, founder of the well-known Georgian scientific school of Oriental Studies. He founded both the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the Tbilisi State University (TSU) the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (GNAS), the latter of which he was the first Director. He was also an Academician of GNAS, a Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, a Doctor of Philological Sciences and a Professor.

Grigol Tsereteli was a distinguished Georgian scientist, one of the founders of Papyrology, founder of the Georgian scientific school of Classical Philology, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Meritorious Scientific Worker of Georgia, Honourable Professor.

Prince Mikheil "Mikhako" G. Tsereteli also known as Michael von Zereteli was a Georgian prince, historian, philologist, sociologist and public benefactor.

Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician and a leading spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia and later Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) during the era of the Russian Revolutions.

Vakhtang also known as Almaskhan (ალმასხანი) was a Georgian prince royal (batonishvili) of the Bagrationi dynasty, born to King Heraclius II and Queen Darejan Dadiani. He distinguished himself in the war with Iran in 1795 and was then active in opposition to his half-brother George XII of Georgia and the newly established Russian administration in Georgia. In 1802 he surrendered to the Russian authorities and spent the rest of his life in St. Petersburg, working on an overview of Georgia's history. In Russia he was known as the tsarevich Vakhtang Irakliyevich Gruzinsky.

Vakhtang VI, also known as Vakhtang the Scholar, Vakhtang the Lawgiver and Ḥosaynqolī Khan, was a Georgian monarch of the royal Bagrationi dynasty. He ruled the East Georgian Kingdom of Kartli as a vassal of Safavid Persia from 1716 to 1724. One of the most important and extraordinary statesman of early 18th-century Georgia, he is known as a notable legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet. His reign was eventually terminated by the Ottoman invasion following the disintegration of Safavid Persia, which forced Vakhtang into exile in the Russian Empire. Vakhtang was unable to get the tsar's support for his kingdom and instead had to permanently stay with his northern neighbors for his own safety. On his way to a diplomatic mission sanctioned by Empress Anna, he fell ill and died in southern Russia in 1737, never reaching Georgia.

Vakhushti (1696–1757) was a Georgian royal prince (batonishvili), geographer, historian and cartographer. His principal historical and geographic works, Description of the Kingdom of Georgia and the Geographical Atlas, were inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2013.

Tedo Zhordania was a Georgian historian, philologist, and educator.