Meeting with well-known German Kartvelologist Jost Gippert

Meeting with well-known German Kartvelologist Jost Gippert

  • July 9, 2019

On 27 June 2019, a meeting with a well-known German Kartvelologist Jost Gippert  was held at the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia where he was awarded a diploma of foreign member of the Academy.

Jost Gippert is a founder of the Department of Caucasiology at the University of Frankfurt where the old Georgian language, new Georgian language, Megrelian, Lazuri, Svan, Caucasian Albanian, etc. are given.  Gipper translated the lyrics of Galaktion Tabidze and Rati Amaglobeli into German.