(1866‒1912)

Khakanov (Khakhanashvili) Aleksandr

Khakanov (Khakhanashvili) Aleksandr (1866‒1912) – ethnographer, philologer, historian.

After the gymnasium in Tiflis, he enrolled at the Historical and Philological Faculty of the Moscow University; he graduated it in 1888, Since 1900, he was Ass. Docent of the Moscow University, where he made lectures in the history of Georgia and Georgian literature. Professor of the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages. He studied Georgian manuscripts, translated texts.

Compositions

Sources on Establishing of Christianity in Georgia. Moscow University, 1893. (in Rus.)
The Most Ancient Borders of Distribution of Georgians in Minor Asia. Moscow University, 1892. (in Rus.)
Essays on the History of Georgian Literature, in 4 vol. Moscow University, 1895‒1907. (in Rus.)
The History of Georgian Literature, in 2 vol. Moscow University, 1904‒1917. (in Rus.)
Georgian Manuscripts of the Rumiantsev Museum. Moscow, 1895. (in Rus.)
Archeological Excursion to the Caucasus. Moscow, 1897. (in Rus.)
Balkhvar and Jodasaph: Georgian Text from the Manuscripts of the Eleventh – Twelfth Centuries. With an Introduction and Transl. into Russian. Moscow, Gatsuk Typography, 1898. (in Rus.)
The Pagan Religion of Georgians // The Caucasus and Muddle Asia. Baku, 1899. (in Rus.)
Georgian Variant of the Legend on St George. Moscow University, 1902. (in Rus.)
Materials in Georgian Hagiology: On the Manuscripts of the Tenth Century. Moscow, Barkhudaryants Typography, 1910. (in Rus.)

About him

Bogdanov Vl. Aleksander Solomonovich Khakhanov: Obituary // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 1912, No 1‒2. (in Rus.)
Djavakhov А. N. А. S. Khakhanov and His Activity in the Field of the Caucasus Studies // Etnograficheskoe obozrenie. 1912, No 3‒4. (in Rus.)
Khakhanov Aleksander Solomonovich // Encyclopedic Dictionary by Brokchaus and Ephron, in 86 vol. St. Petersburg, 1890-1907. (in Rus.)

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