Nikoloz (Lasha) Janashia (November 18, 1931-September 7, 1982) was a famous Georgian historian and public benefactor.

He born in Tbilisi. His father was a noted Georgian historian, Academician Simon Janashia (1900-1947).

In 1954 Nikoloz Janashia graduated from the Faculty of History of the Tbilisi State University (TSU).

In 1957-1970 he was a Research Fellow (1957-1962) and Senior Research Fellow (1962-1970) of the Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS), in 1970-1982 a Deputy Director of the Institute of Manuscripts of the GAS, in 1965-1982 Associate Professor of the Tbilisi State University. In 1962 he received a PhD degree in History.

Nikoloz Janashia was a Scientific Secretary of the Historical Society of Georgia , Member of the Commission of the source studies of the history of Georgia of the Presidium of GAS.

Main fields of scientific activity of N. Janashia were: history of Georgia of the 4th-5th centuries AD, Georgian and Armenian sources of the history of Georgia. He was author of many scientific-research articles and monographs.

Janashia died in 1982, in Tbilisi.

Some of main scientific works of Nikoloz Janashia

• The data of Lazar Pharpetsi about Georgia (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1963, 120 pp (in Georgian)
• Kartli in the 4th century.- Essayes of History of Georgia, vol. II, Tbilisi, 1973, pp. 57-77 (in Georgian)
• "The Martyrdom of Queen Shushaniki" (a monograph), part I, Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian, English summary)
• Essayes on source studies, Tbilisi, 1986, 350 pp (in Georgian)

See also

• List of Georgians
• List of historians

External links

• Georgian Academy of Sciences